Love
Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun,
To rise upon our darkness, if the star
Now beckoning thee out of thy misty throne
Could thaw the clouds which wage an obscure war
With thy young brightness!
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1862.
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