“LO! WHERE SHE STANDS FIXED IN A SAINT-LIKE TRANCE”
Published 1842
One of the “Miscellaneous Sonnets.”—Ed.
Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance,
One upward hand, as if she needed rest
From rapture, lying softly on her breast!
Nor wants her eyeball an ethereal glance;
But not the less—nay more—that countenance, 5
While thus illumined, tells of painful strife
For a sick heart made weary of this life