POET and Artist think and care not whether Things hold in truth the glory that they show; Beauty and beauteous thoughts will go together, While to one scene a thousand memories flow; Long spirit-strains from one wild note shall grow, Magnificent tempests from one cloudy feather, From one bright ray the sunset's perfect glow, Hymettian thyme-beds from one plant of heather. Into one scene a thousand memories flow! Held we but this reflection at our hearts, And beauty never past without regard, No place would lack illuminated parts, And inward grace with outer mingle so, That Nature should be never dark or hard. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE DAY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 3. FULL MOON by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER SONG FOR THE NEWBORN by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN NEWS OF THE WORLD: 2 by GEORGE BARKER MOONSTRUCK by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD A SOUL'S TRAGEDY; A DRAMA by ROBERT BROWNING THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |