NOT solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open, though one page is there; Her plainest, such as children spell, and share With bird and beast; raised letters for the blind. Not where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs for those who hither thither fare, Close interthreading nature with our kind. They, hearing History speak, of what men were, And have become, are wise. The gain is great In vision and solidity; it lives. Yet at a thought of life apart from her, Solidity and vision lose their state, For Earth, that gives the milk, the spirit gives. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EARTH'S IMMORTALITIES: FAME by ROBERT BROWNING FOR THAT HE LOOKED NOT UPON HER by GEORGE GASCOIGNE SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET by JEAN INGELOW ITALY SWEET TOO! by JOHN KEATS ROBIN HOOD, TO A FRIEND by JOHN KEATS CARMEN BELLICOSUM by GUY HUMPHREYS MCMASTER TO - (1) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 1 by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |