RESEMBLES life what once was deemed of light, Too ample in itself for human sight? An absolute self -- an element ungrounded -- All that we see, all colours of all shade By encroach of darkness made? -- Is very life by consciousness unbounded? And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath, A war-embrace of wrestling life and death? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PISCATAQUA RIVER by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE BAY FIGHT by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL THE DEATH OF SLAVERY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST by THOMAS GRAY ALASKA by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER A SWEET NOSEGAY: AUTHOR MAKETH HER WILL & TESTAMENT: A COMMUNICATION . by ISABELLA WHITNEY |