Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VI. Lovers | | Beauty | | Edward Hovell-Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (1781–1829) |
| | | ’T IS much immortal beauty to admire, | |
| But more immortal beauty to withstand; | |
| The perfect soul can overcome desire, | |
| If beauty with divine delight be scanned. | |
| For what is beauty but the blooming child | 5 |
| Of fair Olympus, that in night must end, | |
| And be forever from that bliss exiled, | |
| If admiration stand too much its friend? | |
| The wind may be enamored of a flower, | |
| The ocean of the green and laughing shore, | 10 |
| The silver lightning of a lofty tower,— | |
| But must not with too near a love adore; | |
| Or flower and margin and cloud-cappèd tower | |
| Love and delight shall with delight devour! | | | | |
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