(ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES) HAYDON! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively on these mighty things; Forgive me that I have not Eagle's wings-- That what I want I know not where to seek: And think that I would not be over meek In rolling out upfollow'd thunderings, Even to the steep of Heliconian springs, Were I of ample strength for such a freak-- Think too, that all those numbers should be thine; Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture's hem? For when men star'd at what was most divine With browless idiotism--o'erwise phlegm-- Thou hadst beheld the Hesperean shine Of their star in the East, and gone to worship them. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MY HEART SINKS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GOD'S YOUTH by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE BAT by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE by HERMAN MELVILLE SONNET: 14. ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF CATHERINE THOMASON by JOHN MILTON THE MARYLAND BATTALION [AUGUST 27, 1776] by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER AMOR MUNDI by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |