From this entangling labyrinthine maze Of doctrine, creed, and theory; from vague Vain speculations; the detested plague Of spiritual pride, and vile affrays Sectarian, good Lord, deliver me! Nature! thy placid monitory glory Shines uninterrogated, while the story Goes round of this and that theology, This creed, and that, till patience close the list. Once more on Carronben's wind-shrilling height To sit in sovereign solitude, and quite Forget the hollow world, -- a pantheist Beyond Bonaventura! This were cheer Passing the tedious tale of shallow pulpiteer. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LANCER by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TWILIGHT AT THE HEIGHTS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER ONE PERSON: 16 by ELINOR WYLIE S. BARTHOLOMEW by JOSEPH BEAUMONT BEFORE AND AFTER by OLIVER MADOX BROWN CROMWELL'S SOLILOQUY OVER THE DEAD BODY OF CHARLES by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON |