Skip to content
Linespedia

Eva.

Topics: classic

"God bless the darling Eva!" was my prayer.     A pure, unconscious depth of earnestness     Was in her eyes, so indescribable     You might as well the color of the air     Seek to daguerreotype, or to impress     A stain upon the river, whose first swell     Would swirl it to the deep.    A calm, sweet soul,     Where Love's celestial saints and ministers     Did hold the earthly under such control     Virtue sprung up like daisies from the sod.     Oh, for one hour's sweet excellence like hers!     One hour of sinlessness, that never more     Can visit me this side the Silent Shore,     To stand, like her, serene, unblushing before God!

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

""God bless the darling Eva!" was my prayer...."

This evocative piece by Charles Sangster, titled "Eva.", represents a masterful exploration of classic. The lines capture a profound emotional resonance... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"I sat within the temple of her heart,     And watched the living Soul as it passed through,     Arrayed in pearly vestments, white and pure."

"My footsteps press where, centuries ago,     The Red Men fought and conquered; lost and won.     Whole tribes and races, gone like last year's s"

"Sounds of rural life and labour!     Not the notes of pipe and tabour,     Not the clash of helm and sabre         Bright'ning up the field of"

"If seasons, like the human race, had souls,     Then two artistic spirits live within     The Chameleon mind of Autumn - these,     The Poet's"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"I sat within the temple of her heart,     And watc..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.