How would you have us, as we are? Or sinking 'neath the load we bear? Our eyes fixed forward on a star? Or gazing empty at despair? Rising or falling? Men or things? With dragging pace or footsteps fleet? Strong, willing sinews in your wings? Or tightening chains about your feet? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FISHER by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE DANAIDES: THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH by AESCHYLUS VERSES: IN PRAISE OF SACRED POESY by JOHN BYROM ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG 1 by THOMAS CAMPION BORN WITHOUT A CHANCE by EDMUND VANCE COOKE SYREN SONGS: DIRGE by GEORGE DARLEY |