Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY: BOOK 3, by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose all-creating hands sustain Last Line: Our utmost bound, and out eternal stay! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life | ||||||||
O thou, whose all-creating hands sustain The radiant Heav'ns, and Earth, and ambient main! Eternal Reason! whose presiding soul Informs great nature and directs the whole! Who wert, e're time his rapid race begun, And bad'st the years in long procession run: Who fix't thy self amidst the rowling frame, Gav'st all things to be chang'd, yet ever art the same! Oh teach the mind t' aetherial heights to rise, And view familiar, in its native skies, The source of good; thy splendor to descry, And on thy self, undazled, fix her eye. Oh quicken this dull mass of mortal clay; Shine through the soul, and drive its clouds away! For thou art Light. In thee the righteous find Calm rest, and soft serenity of mind; Thee they regard alone; to thee they tend; At once our great original and end, At once our means, our end, our guide, our way, Our utmost bound, and out eternal stay! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD by MATTHEA HARVEY SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN MY LIFE: YET WE INSIST THAT LIFE IS FULL OF HAPPY CHANCE by LYN HEJINIAN CHAPTER HEADING by ERNEST HEMINGWAY PUNK HALF PANTHER by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA A CERTAIN MAN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA GREEN-STRIPED MELONS by JANE HIRSHFIELD LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN by JANE HIRSHFIELD THE ORDER OF NATURE by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS by ROBERT BURNS THE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP by HEINRICH HOFFMANN |
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