ABSTRACT
Richard C. Jackson. Written c. 1887–9. Subtitled ‘A Reverie of Walter Pater’. From Thomas Wright, The Life of Walter Pater, 1907. Appendix X. Joy standeth on the threshold of each new delight, As in that spirit true men take of roses white: Of roses fill’d all through with joyaunces divine As in that beauty rare I worship at its shrine. Your darling soul I say is enflam’d with love of me: Your very eyes do move, I cry, with sympathy: Your darling feet and hands are blessings ruled by love, As forth was sent from out the Ark a turtle dove! Oh, how I watch’d the travail of your pensive soul, Oh, sweetness unto sweetness grew to make me whole! With lilies white thou shinest as fair Luna’s brow; The while thy latent thought, my joyaunce doth endow.
