#title From the Arabic
#subtitle An Imitation
#author Percy Bysshe Shelley
#SORTtopics poetry
#date 1824
#source https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Arabic:_An_Imitation
#lang en
#pubdate 2020-03-15T00:25:52
My faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the hind at noon
For the brooks, my love.
Thy barb, whose hoofs outspeed the tempest's flight,
Bore thee far from me;
My heart, for my weak feet were weary soon,
Did companion thee.
Ah! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed,
Or the death they bear,
The heart which tender thought clothes like a dove
With the wings of care;
In the battle, in the darkness, in the need,
Shall mine cling to thee,
Nor claim one smile for all the comfort, love,
It may bring to thee.