DULL fools that will begin a formal siege, Intrench, attack, yet never wish to win, And vainly thus to linger out your age When 'tis but 'knock at gate and enter in.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER) by HERMAN MELVILLE SONNET: 16. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, MAY 1652 by JOHN MILTON THE AFTER WOMAN by FRANCIS THOMPSON THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I WOULD BE THE SUN by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS OVID TO HIS WIFE: IMITATED FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF TRISTIA by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH CANDLER by BERNARD BARTON |