Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH AND LOW, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grasses green of sweet content Last Line: And grasses green of sweet content. | ||||||||
THE grasses green of sweet content That spring, no matter high or low, Where'er a living thing can grow, On chilly hills and rocky rent, And by the lowly streamlet's side -- Oh! why did e'er I turn from these? -- The lordly, tall, umbrageous trees, That stand in high aspiring pride, With massive bulk on high sustain A world of boughs with leaf and fruits, And drive their wide-extending roots Deep down into the subject plain. Oh, what with these had I to do? -- That germs of things above their kind May live, pent up and close confined In humbler forms, it may be true; Yet great is that which gives our lot; High laws and powers our will transcend. And not for this, till time do end, Shall any be what he is not. Each in its place, as each was sent, Just nature ranges side by side; Alike the oak tree's lofty pride And grasses green of sweet content. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN A LECTURE-ROOM by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH NATURA NATURANS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH QUA CURSUM VENTUS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH THE LATEST DECALOGUE by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH A LONDON IDYLL by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH A PROTEST by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH A RIVER POOL by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH A SLEEPING CHILD by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |
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