ON THE HEATH.HER face’s wilful flash and glowTurned all its light upon my faceOne bright delirious moment’s space,And then she passed: I followed slowAcross the heath, and up and round,And watched the splendid death of dayUpon the summits far away,And in her fateful beauty foundThe fierce wild beauty of the lightThat startles twilight on the hills,And lightens all the mountain rills,And flames before the feet of night.
HER face’s wilful flash and glowTurned all its light upon my faceOne bright delirious moment’s space,And then she passed: I followed slow
Across the heath, and up and round,And watched the splendid death of dayUpon the summits far away,And in her fateful beauty found
The fierce wild beauty of the lightThat startles twilight on the hills,And lightens all the mountain rills,And flames before the feet of night.