SONNET.
(ON SEEING THE IVORY STATUE OF CHRIST.)
THE enthusiast brooding in his cell apartO'er the sad image of the Crucified, The drooping head, closed lips, and pierced side, A holy vision fills his raptured heart; American Female Poets [an electronic edition]
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- Title
- American Female Poets [an electronic edition]
- Editor
- May, Caroline, b. ca. 1820
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Penn.: Lindsay and Blakiston
- 1853
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"American Female Poets [an electronic edition]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE7433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
Pages
Page 453
With heavenly power inspired, his unskill'd arm Shapes the rude block to this transcendant form. Oh! Son of God! thus, ever thus, would I Dwell on the loveliness enshrined in thee; The lofty faith, the sweet humility, The boundless love, the love that could not die. And as the sculptor, with thy glory warm, Gives to this chisell'd ivory thy fair form, So would my spirit in thy thought divine Grow to a semblance, fair as this, of Thine.