SEAT of all woes! Though Nature's firm decree The narrowing soul with narrowing dungeon bind, Yet was his free of motion as the wind, And held both worlds, of spirit and sense, in fee. In charmed communion with his dual mind He wandered Spain, himself both knight and hind, Redressing wrongs he knew must ever be. His humor wise could see life's long deceit, Man's baffled aims, nor therefore both despise; His knightly nature could ill fortune greet Like an old friend. Whose ever such kind eyes That pierced so deep, such scope, save his whose feet By Avon ceased 'neath the same April's skies? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMIN' THRO' THE RYE by ROBERT BURNS ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK TO THE BOY by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY SHUT OUT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE INTRODUCTION by AL-DHAHABI FECUNDI CALICES by BACCHYLIDES |