Lord Alfred Tennyson

Fatima

O LOVE, Love, Love! O withering might!
O sun, that from thy noonday height
Shudderest when I strain my sight,
Throbbing thro’ all thy heat and light,
     Lo, falling from my constant mind,
     Lo, parch’d and wither’d, deaf and blind,
     I whirl like leaves in roaring wind.
 
Last night I wasted hateful hours
Below the city’s eastern towers:
I thirsted for the brooks, the showers:
I roll’d among the tender flowers:
     I crush’d them on my breast, my mouth;
     I look’d athwart the burning drouth
     Of that long desert to the south.
 
Last night, when some one spoke his name,
From my swift blood that went and came
A thousand little shafts of flame
Were shiver’d in my narrow frame.
     O Love, O fire! once he drew
     With one long kiss my whole soul thro’
     My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
 
Before he mounts the hill, I know
He cometh quickly: from below
Sweet gales, as from deep gardens, blow
Before him, striking on my brow.
     In my dry brain my spirit soon,
     Down-deepening from swoon to swoon,
     Faints like a daled morning moon.
 
The wind sounds like a silver wire,
And from beyond the noon a fire
Is pour’d upon the hills, and nigher
The skies stoop down in their desire;
     And, isled in sudden seas of light,
     My heart, pierced thro’ with fierce delight,
     Bursts into blossom in his sight.
 
My whole soul waiting silently,
All naked in a sultry sky,
Droops blinded with his shining eye:
I will possess him or will die.
     I will grow round him in his place,
     Grow, live, die looking on his face,
     Die, dying clasp’d in his embrace.
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