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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREAT THOUGHTS, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can mistake great thoughts? Last Line: And close the soul with heaven as with a seal. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking | |||
WHO can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest, and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current; turn us cold, And pale, and voiceless; leaving in the brain A rocking and a ringing, -- glorious, But momentary; madness might it last, And close the soul with Heaven as with a seal. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (PREMIERS CENTS) by DENISE DUHAMEL SUNDAY AFTERNOON by CLARENCE MAJOR I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY by KENNETH REXROTH GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1 by KENNETH REXROTH A FAIRY TALE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY |
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