Yes! - doubtless 'twas delightful beyond measure To Daedalus to sail, as in a skiff, Through the blue seas of iEther, high o'er cliff And tower! Worth more than all the golden treasure Of earth too, must, methinks, have been the pleasure Astolfo felt, when, on his hippogriff, He went sky-scaling, to discover if He might mount to the moon, and there make seizure Of the poor Paladin's abstracted brains.* And yet I wish not to be winged, or Thus raised above Earth's petty pains and plains. And why? Because I know that if I were, The devil would dispatch my Creditor I'p after me, to dun me in the air! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 78 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AUTUMN; WRITTEN IN THE GROUNDS OF MARTIN COLE, ESQ. by BERNARD BARTON THE STEALING OF THE MARE; AN ARABIC EPIC OF THE TENTH CENTURY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |