Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN IMMEMORIAM, by EDWARD BRADLEY


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IN IMMEMORIAM, by                
First Line: We seek to know, and knowing seek
Last Line: O voices all! Like ye I die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bede, Cuthbert
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WE seek to know, and knowing seek;
We seek, we know, and every sense
Is trembling with the great Intense
And vibrating to what we speak.

We ask too much, we seek too oft,
We know enough, and should no more;
And yet we skim through Fancy's lore
And look to earth and not aloft.

A something comes from out the gloom;
I know it not, nor seek to know;
I only see it swell and grow,
And more than this world would presume.

Meseems, a circling void I fill,
And I, unchanged where all is changed;
It seems unreal; I own it strange,
Yet nurse the thoughts I cannot kill.

I hear the ocean's surging tide,
Raise quiring on its carol-tune;
I watch the golden-sickled moon,
And clearer voices call beside.

O Sea! whose ancient ripples lie
On red-ribbed sands where seaweeds shone;
O Moon! whose golden sickle's gone;
O Voices all! like ye I die!





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