Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET. PHILOSOPHY, by GEORGE LUNT Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the world in vain, in vain they sought Last Line: Nor mind, nor nature breathed heaven's holiest whisper, rest. Subject(s): Nature; Rest; Thought; Thinking | ||||||||
THROUGHOUT the world in vain, in vain they sought Some solid good to fill the restless mind; The long desired, but still unfound, to find, The heart's last refuge and the goal of thought; What, in its depths, the burning soul has wrought Of visions moulded with consuming fire, And all that sprang spontaneous to the lyre, In harmonies of golden words, they caught; Upon the mountain-top, where silence broods, They questioned of the stars; and by the shore Asked of its waves, and pondered all the lore Of peopled plain, or taught in solemn woods; Without,within,alas, how vain the quest! Nor mind, nor nature breathed Heaven's holiest whisper, REST. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (PREMIERS CENTS) by DENISE DUHAMEL SUNDAY AFTERNOON by CLARENCE MAJOR I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY by KENNETH REXROTH GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1 by KENNETH REXROTH REQUIEM FOR ONE SLAIN IN BATTLE by GEORGE LUNT |
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