A man must ponder On Beauty's nature, Feature, and stature, What wondrous plunder She steals from Time; What is her law, Dignity, awe, Reason and rhyme, That may be Orion Above a mountain, Or a tense lion, Or a strict fountain, Or a wave overblown. For I seek only Beauty lonely, Lonely, lonely, To me unknown. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD MAN by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER LINCOLN by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 72 by PHILIP SIDNEY TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): THE MOVING ROCKS by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS THE REEDS by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT A FRAGMENT OF AN EPIC POEM, OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A GAME by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |