BEAUTIFUL world! though bigots condemn thee, My tongue finds no words for the graces that gem thee! Beaming with sunny light, bountiful ever, Streaming with gay delight, full as a river! Bright world! brave world! Let cavillers blame thee! I bless thee, and bend To the God who did frame thee! Beautiful world! bursting around me, Manifold million-hued wonders confound me! From earth, sea, and starry sky, meadow and mountain, Eagerly gushes Life's magical fountain. Bright world! brave world! Though witlings may blame thee, Wonderful excellence Only could frame thee! The bird in the greenwood his sweet hymn is trolling, The fish in blue ocean is spouting and rolling! Light things on airy wing wild dances weaving, Clods with new life in Spring swelling and heaving! Thou quick-teeming world, Though scoffers may blame thee, I wonder, and worship The God who could frame thee! Beautiful world! what poesy measures Thy strong-flooding passions, thy light-trooping pleasures! Mustering, marshalling, striving, and straining, Conquering, triumphing, ruling, and reigning! Thou bright-armied world! So strong! -- who can tame thee? Wonderful power of God Only could frame thee! Beautiful world! while godlike I deem thee, No cold wit shall move me with bile to blaspheme thee! I have lived in thy light, and when Fate ends my story, May I leave on Death's cloud the bright trail of Life's glory! Wondrous old world! No ages shall shame thee! Ever bright with new light From the God who did frame thee! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO GRANDMOTHERS by IRENE ARCHER PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 37. AL-HALI by EDWIN ARNOLD SONNET: MAN VERSUS ASCETIC. 3 by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE EAVES by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH A LYNMOUTH WIDOW by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR THE PASSING OF THE OLD VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY |