"I HID within the everlasting dearth, -- And who art thou that comest? dreadful thou art Unto all Being who hast power to dart Thy weird self-knowledge through creation's girth! What is thy purpose? Wherefore was thy birth? Thou of the mystic understanding heart! What thinkest thou, seeing to-day depart The last Unknown from the all-conquered earth? "What prospect, if not this, should give thee pause, O Human Eye, whose lustre, age by age, Spreads through the blind deep wherein thou wast born? Of the Eternal Dark thy gendering was; Eternal Want has been thy pilgrimage; Oh, to what cold horizons bring'st thou morn!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES by THOMAS HARDY A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS by HERMAN MELVILLE THE MAHOGANY TREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WINTER SLEEP by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS |