If the foolish, call them "flowers" - Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants "Classify" them It is just as well! Those who read the "Revelations" Must not criticize Those who read the same Edition - With beclouded Eyes! Could we stand with that Old "Moses" - "Canaan" denied - Scan like him, the stately landscape On the other side - Doubtless, we should deem superfluous Many Sciences, Not pursued by learned Angels In scholastic skies! Low amid that glad Belles lettres Grant that we may stand, Stars, amid profound Galaxies - At that grand "Right hand"! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IYYOB TRANSLATION FROM 'A-15' by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY ON THE RUINS OF A COUNTRY INN by PHILIP FRENEAU WHEN THE KYE CAME HOME by JAMES HOGG TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 2 by EDITH SITWELL DRINKING SONG (3) by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE THE BLUE BIRD by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA |