Classic Poem

How have you stirred the colours in my heart
To sudden riot, thrilling me awake
To the new spring's warmth and the green earth's ache!
How, in the quiet, where I stood apart,
Have you divined me, touched me with your fire,
Endowed the silence, wounded me to song,
Till once again the passion-eddies throng
Over the far savannahs of desire.

Now in my heart a silver rain is falling
Like music borne in from an ultimate sea.
Oh you have come, with the old mystery
Of hands that bind, of eyes and red lips calling.
And once again my ancient avatars
Break through the twilight of the iron stars.