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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RELIGIOUS ISOLATION, TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children (as such forgive them) have I known Last Line: Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers. Subject(s): Religion; Theology | |||
CHILDREN (as such forgive them) have I known, Ever in their own eager pastime bent To make the incurious bystander, intent On his own swarming thoughts, an interest own; Too fearful or too fond to play alone. Do thou, whom light in thine own inmost soul (Not less thy boast) illuminates, control Wishes unworthy of a man full-grown. What though the holy secret which moulds thee Moulds not the solid Earth? though never Winds Have whisper'd it to the complaining Sea, Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES |
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