Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affections, instincts, principles, and powers Last Line: In cloudy circles, to eternity. Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680) | ||||||||
AFFECTIONS, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, Impulse and Reason, Freedom and Control-- So men, unravelling God's harmonious whole, Rend in a thousand shreds this life of ours. Vain labour! Deep and broad, where none may see, Spring the foundations of the shadowy throne Where man's one Nature, queen-like, sits alone, Centred in a majestic unity; And rays her powers, like sister islands, seen Linking their coral arms under the sea: Or cluster'd peaks, with plunging gulfs between Spann'd by aerial arches, all of gold; Whereo'er the chariot wheels of Life are roll'd In cloudy circles, to eternity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPISTLES BETWEEN AND ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO ANDREW GRAY by ROBERT FERGUSSON IN RE ALFRED EMERY CATHIE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY ENGLISH LIBERAL by GEOFFREY TAYLOR EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM by MATTHEW ARNOLD GEIST'S GRAVE by MATTHEW ARNOLD HAWORTH CHURCHYARD by MATTHEW ARNOLD LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS by MATTHEW ARNOLD |
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