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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO B.R. HAYDON (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: High is our calling, friend! Creative art
Last Line: Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846)
First Line: High is our calling, friend! Creative art
Last Line: Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846)
HIGH is our calling, Friend! -- Creative Art
(Whether the instrument of words she use,
Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,)
Demands the service of a mind and heart,
Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part,
Heroically fashioned -- to infuse
Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse,
While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may,
Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress,
Still to be strenuous for the bright reward,
And in the soul admit of no decay,
Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness --
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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