So it is a very beautiful stroke of art in this poem to represent the touch of the hand of great love as having the magical power of the golden rod of Hermes.

It is as if the poet were to say: "Should she but touch me, I know that my spirit would leap out of my body and follow after her." Then there is the expression "crescent-browed." It means only having beautifully curved eyebrows--arched eyebrows being considered particularly beautiful in Western countries.
Now we will consider another poem of the ideal.

What we have been reading referred to ghostly ideals, to memories, or to hopes.

Let us now see how the poets have talked about realities.

Here is a pretty thing by Thomas Ashe.