WHAT need I travel, since I may More choicer wonders here survey? What need I Tyre for purple seek, When I may find it in a cheek? Or sack the Eastern shores? there lies More precious diamonds in her eyes. What need I dig Peru for ore, When every hair of her yields more? Or toil for gums in India, Since she can breathe more rich than they? Or ransack Africk? there will be On either hand more ivory. But look within: all virtues that Each nation would appropriate, And with the glory of them rest, Are in this map at large exprest; That who would travel here might know The little world in folio. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER WOODS IN WINTER by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS; ADDRESSED TO TWO SWALLOWS .. DURING SERVICE by CHARLES SPRAGUE CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER by JEAN TOOMER |