Must modern harps be hung upon the tree Of arts forgotten in a sordid age, Too gross to feel the nobler passions of the soul? Will fair Columbia's children always bow To sensual altars and the golden calf? Must blind commercialism force the pen To cast her genius in the coins of trade? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN HOSPITAL: 4. BEFORE by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 46. AL-WASI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD MON REPOS (MY MOTHER'S GIRLHOOD HOME) by ALFRED BARRETT THE KING OF NORMANDY by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER FAMILIARITY DANGEROUS by VINCENT BOURNE IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665 by ANNE BRADSTREET |