Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 34 1833/The Invocation

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see The Invocation (Songs of Captivity).

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 34, Page 860

VI.

THE INVOCATION.

Oh! art thou still on earth, my Love?
My only Love!
Or smiling in a brighter home,
Far, far above?

Oh! is thy sweet voice fled, my Love?
Thy light step gone?
And art thou not, in Earth or Heaven,
Still, still my own?

I see thee with thy gleaming hair,
In midnight-dreams:
But cold, and clear, and spirit-like,
Thy soft eye seems.

Peace in thy saddest hour, my Love!
Dwelt on thy brow;
But something mournfully divine
There shineth now:

And silent ever is thy lip,
And pale thy cheek:—
Oh! art thou Earth's, or art thou Heaven's?
Speak to me, speak!