Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars, Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space, And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary; But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those, Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea, (What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?) More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul! More multiform far -- more lasting thou than they. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO W.P.: 1 by GEORGE SANTAYANA FAR - FAR - AWAY (FOR MUSIC) by ALFRED TENNYSON AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IMPROMPTU: TO FRANCES GARNET WOLSELEY by ALFRED AUSTIN TWO HELPERS by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT EVENING by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. BELIEVE YOURSELF A WHOLE by EDWARD CARPENTER |