Beatrice by Lewis Carroll — Read

Explore "Beatrice" by Lewis Carroll on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.

/ In her eyes is the living light / Of a wanderer to earth / From a far celestial height: / Summers five are all the span -- / Summers five since Time began / To veil in mists of human night / A shining angel-birth.

/ Does an angel look from her eyes? / Will she suddenly spring away, / And soar to her home in the skies? / Beatrice! Blessing and blessed to be! / Beatrice! Still, as I gaze on thee, / Visions of two sweet maids arise, / Whose life was of yesterday:

Reading navigation