I CAME -- I know not through how many a gate, A long, long way; not early and not late, When I arrived unto my Last Estate. I found me stripped of all I had before, The dross, the husks, that once I held as store -- My naked affluence needed these no more. No eyes, when past the final gate I drew -- Yet had I sight, to pierce things through and through; Nor ears -- I needed not to hear: I knew! I servants had before. Now, none did wait; Fulfilled was all desire -- on instant date ... Oh, naked affluence of my Last Estate! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON MAN by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE by EZRA POUND TO THE MOON (1) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE FOOL'S ADVENTURE by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE A SONG OF PROGRESS by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE EAGLE OF SONG by BACCHYLIDES |