PORTENTOUS change when History can appear As the cool Advocate of foul device; Reckless audacity extol, and jeer At consciences perplexed with scruples nice! They who bewail not, must abhor, the sneer Born of Conceit, Power's blind Idolater; Or haply sprung from vaunting Cowardice Betrayed by mockery of holy fear. Hath it not long been said the wrath of Man Works not the righteousness of God? Oh bend, Bend, ye Perverse! to judgments from on High, Laws that lay under Heaven's perpetual ban All principles of action that transcend The sacred limits of humanity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY SAY - . by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER THE YOUNG MYSTIC by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE HEART OF THE BRUCE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE LAND OF DREAMS by WILLIAM BLAKE THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE by ANNE BRADSTREET ON A VIRTUOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN THAT DIED SUDDENLY by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT SONNET: FOR INSPIRATION by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI |