@3And from heaven descends know thyself.@1 -- Juvenal Know thyself -- and is this the prime And heaven-sprung adage of the olden time! -- Say, canst thou make thyself? -- Learn first that trade; -- Haply thou mayst know what thyself has made. What hast thou, Man, that thou dar'st call thine own? -- What is there in thee, Man, that can be known? -- Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought, Vain sister of the worm, -- life, death, soul, clod -- Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY by RUPERT BROOKE EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1) by THOMAS CAREW LAURA SLEEPING; ODE by CHARLES COTTON TO MADAME DE SEVIGNE by MATHIEU DE MONTREUIL GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE PREFACE by EDWARD TAYLOR THE MAIDEN CITY by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA |