Poetry Thursday, respite from our world

I Saw You

~Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.

I saw you as I passed last night,

    Framed in a sky of gold;

And through the sun’s fast paling light

    You seemed a queen of old,

Whose smile was light to all the world

    Against the crowding dark.

And in my soul a song there purled—

    Re-echoed by the lark.

I saw you as I passed last night,

    Your tresses burnished gold,

While in your eyes a happy bright

    Gleam of your friendship told.

And I went singing on my way;

    On, on into the dark.

But in my heart still shone the day,

    And still—still sang the lark.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 25, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.