How they are provided for upon the earth (appearing at intervals), How dear and dreadful they are to the earth, How they inure to themselves as much as to any, what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentless in their fate all times, How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward, And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MAY AND DEATH by ROBERT BROWNING A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK SONNET: 107 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AN HYMN TO THE EVENING by PHILLIS WHEATLEY URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER by WILLIAM BASSE |