MAJESTIC plant! such fairy dreams as lie, Nursed, where the bee sucks in the cowslip's bell, Are not @3thy@1 train. Those flowers of vase-like swell, Clear, large, with dewy moonlight filled from high, And in their monumental purity Serenely drooping, round thee seem to draw Visions linked strangely with that silent awe Which broods o'er sculpture's works. A meet ally For those heroic forms, the simply grand Art thou; and worthy, carved by plastic hand, Above some kingly poet's tomb to shine In spotless marble; honouring one whose strain, Soared, upon wings of thought that knew no stain, Free through the starry heavens of truth Divine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO-MORROW TO FRESH WOODS AND PASTURES NEW' by AMY LOWELL DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE LEPER by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE TO CHLOE; AN APOLOGY FOR GOING INTO THE COUNTRY by JOHN WOLCOTT SONNET: TO SLEEP by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND by ALDFRITH THE STORY OF ZERBIN AND ISABELLA, FR. ORLANDO FURIOSO by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO |