George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
The BrookCaroline Sturgis Tappan (18191888)
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In this my strange life-dream,
Hazel, gray, and deepest blue,
Are mingled in this stream.
Awakes each hidden feeling,
Gives me a rapture beyond control,
High love fills all my being.
All words to me are naught,
For me they neither take nor give,
In the eye the soul is caught.
And have gazed at many an hour,
Blended together,—has heaven above
A greater joy in store?