A painter in China once painted a hall; -- Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall; -- One half from his brush with rich colors did run, The other he touched with a beam of the sun; So that all which delighted the eye in one side, The same, point for point, in the other replied. In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found; Thine the star-pointing roof, and the base on the ground: Is one half depicted with colors less bright? Beware that the counterpart blazes with light! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO THE WHITE KNIGHT'S SONG by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE DREARY CHANGE by WALTER SCOTT ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS' LOVE LETTERS by OSCAR WILDE |