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The House Of Clouds

The House Of Clouds

Some be birds of paradise,---
The House Of Clouds
Turning to a sound like rain,
To which I looked with thee.
Sidelong star to watch it,---
Whence to form a mirror pure,
Cloud-walls of the mornings grey,
Poet-dream may sit in,
Bring the red cloud from the sun
Following their own prayers.
Pale and glimmering;
Waking in the hedges,---
In light instead of sound.
From the lilies edges:
Be my chamber tapestried
Cupola and column proud,
Spread them out from wall to wall,
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Turning sadness into good,
At the curfew-sounding,--- ;
Bring the dews the birds shake off,
Naiads, without sources
With the showers of summer,
Which the wind is clearing;
Bring a grey cloud from the east,
While he sinketh, catch it.
Gone---except that moonlit cloud,
And a smell of spring.
To which I looked with THEE!
Those too, perfumed for a proof,
With a sunbeam hid in each,
Build a spacious hall thereby:
Structure bright to see---
Dowered with his immortal.
Ranged, for sculpt九-九-藏-書ures, round the room,---
Waters stringed for such,---
The sun may darken,---heaven be bowed---
I build it bright to see,---
With a vibrant touch.
Such as children wish to climb,
When for earth too fancy-loose
From the chestnut forest,
Carpet-wove around,---
Build the entrance high and proud,
Unlost in the bringing:
Crowned with crimson cupola
I would build a cloudy House
Bring them calm and white in;
Unrhymed and unwritten.
Flecked with winding stairs---
That shall be a couch,---with one
But still, unhttps://read.99csw.comchanged shall be,---
Bring the fantasque cloudlets home
Where the lark is singing;
When it leans out on the air,
Branched with corridors sublime,
If a riven thunder-cloud,
Darkening and then brightening,---
Hush! I talk my dream aloud---
Whereupon the foot shall fall
As in April weather!
For Loves self-delighting.
Some be Junos, without eyes;
Cloudy walls divide and fly,
Wandering harpers, harping on
When the sunbeams come here;
Fit for poets finest Thought,
Than the seen, around him.
And too low for He九-九-藏-書aven!
As I turn the key.
Let them! Wipe such visionings
Bring a shadow green and still
Bring a purple from the hill,
For my thoughts to live in;
Boldly, never fearing.
Softemng in degree,---
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In the mutest of the house,
Something of the song at least,
Named as Fancy weeneth:
Here in my soul,---that moonlit cloud,
As I enter in.
Evenings light of amber,
From our Englands field and moor,
May mists, for the casements, fetch,
That shall be a morning chair,
Love secures some fai九*九*藏*書rer things
Silence at the door shall use
Faced with amber column,---
For the door within;
Things unseen being nearer brought
I build it on the moonlit cloud,
From a sunset solemn!
Use the blue place of the sky,
To which I looked with thee!
When the heat is sorest;
From the noontide zenith
Las, they come together!
Some, Olympian horses.
Solemnising every mood,
Poets thought,----not poets sigh!
Drawing colours, for a tune,
I will have my chamber:
Veined by the lightning.
Use one with an iris-stain,
From the Fancys cartel---