Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace Disperse their rays on every vulgar spirit, Whilst I in darkness, in the self-same place, Get not one glance to recompense my merit? So doth the plowman gaze the wand'ring star, And only rest contented with the light, That never learn'd what constellations are Beyond the bent of his unknowing sight. O why should Beauty, custom to obey, To their gross sense apply herself so ill? Would God I were as ignorant as they, When I am made unhappy by my skill, Only compell'd on this poor good to boast: Heav'ns are not kind to them that know them most. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES OLD KING COLE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 56 by EDWARD TAYLOR IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE HOLY GRAIL by ALFRED TENNYSON TO MRS. MARISSAL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALCOVE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |