'Song' by Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry

Song

Edgar Allan Poe (1827)

I saw thee on the bridal day; When a burning blush came o’er thee, Tho’ Happiness around thee lay, The world all love before thee. And, in thine eye, the kindling light Of young passion free Was all on earth, my chain’d sight Of Loveliness might see. That blush, I ween, was maiden shame: As such it well may pass: Tho’ its glow hath rais’d a fiercer flame In the breast of him, alas! Who saw thee on that bridal day, When that deep blush would come o’er thee, — Tho’ Happiness around thee lay; The world all Love before thee. —


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