"But the only very definite conclusion he came to was that he should
enjoy deucedly 'gong off' with her somewhere."
                                            ~  Henry James, "Daisy Miller"


  When her radiant smile mark'd on my mind,
  Suddenly I have a strange idea
  That I want to elope with her.

      Her smile is that of Beatrice
  That purg'd a soul within holy elevation
  Over the flame of vulgar damnation --
  Eternity becomes ridiculous in that glimpse of the moment.

      Ships launch'd for Helen now turns
  Toward the radiance that as the sun the Lark mistakes,
  That Ligeia's eyes to a crystal dawn lights,
  And that Archangel to a thin shadow compels.

      The radiance, more temperate than a summer's day,
  Makes one drink not for wine, and the heart leap up
  When beholding the blue spurt of a light'd match
  That nine-and-fifty swans captures.

      Dazzling as it may be,
  Like the day parties upon the canopy
  Or the leaping ringlets of the Lake Innisfree.

      The petal has soar'd from the bough,
  Wandering lonely as a cloud; herself
  A floating shrine of gold that
  Strife knows and to the incapables goes.

      So what can a mountain expect more?
  In the one-night cheap hotel growing old,
  Though the name sprang to lips at moments
  In strange prayers and praises never to be understood.

  Love to goes One goes to shrink in a role.
  Love to goes One goes to a name to perform.
  Love to goes One goes to feed a misform.
  Love to goes One goes to an "out, out -- "

  If ever I have the chance
  To fall from the bough
  -- Not in the way of cummings --
  And return as Emerson's Lazarus,
  I go elope with her.

--
stanza 2: Dante, "The Divine Comedy"
stanza 3: (The Trojan War)
          Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
          Edgar A. Poe, "Ligeia"
          John Milton, "Paradise Lost"
stanza 4: Shakespeare, "Sonnet 18"
          Ben Johnson, "To Celia"; William Wordsworth, "My heart leaps up"
          Robert Browning, "Meeting at Night"
          W.B. Yeats, "The Wild Swans at Coole"
stanza 5: Robert Browning, "Meeting at Night"
          W.B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
stanza 6: Ezra Pound, "In the Station of Metro"
          William Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
          (The Trojan War)
stanza 7: T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"
          James Joyce, "Araby"
stanza 8: Shakespeare, "Macbeth"
stanza 9: Ezra Pound, "In the Station of Metro"
          e.e. cummings, "poem 95"(loneliness)
          (Transcendentalism; The Bible)