Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 43. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tax not the royal saint with vain expense Last Line: That they were born for immortality. Variant Title(s): Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge;king's College Chapel;within King's College Chapel, Cambridge Subject(s): Cambridge University | ||||||||
TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned -- Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white robed Scholars only -- this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering -- and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER by JOHN MILTON WHIGS AND TORIES by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774) THE CANDIDATE by CHARLES CHURCHILL ELEGY UPON DOCTOR CHADDERTON, THE FIRST MASTER OF EMANUEL COLLEGE by JOHN CLEVELAND HOW THE COMMENCEMENT GROWS NEW by JOHN CLEVELAND AD CHLOEN, M.A.; FRESH FROM HER CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS A DEDICATORY ELEGY TO THE ... UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE by ABRAHAM COWLEY LINES ON DR. ROBERT SMITH by THOMAS GRAY SATIRE ON THE HEADS OF HOUSES by THOMAS GRAY A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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