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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHITHER?, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is gone the wisdom and the power Last Line: Sustain our spirits with their roundelays. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley | |||
WHITHER is gone the wisdom and the power That ancient sages scatter'd with the notes Of thought-suggesting lyres? The music floats In the void air; e'en at this breathing hour, In every cell and every blooming bower The sweetness of old lays is hovering still: But the strong soul, the self-constraining will, The rugged root that bare the winsome flower Is weak and wither'd. Were we like the Fays That sweetly nestle in the foxglove bells, Or lurk and murmur in the rose-lipp'd shells Which Neptune to the earth for quit-rent pays, Then might our pretty modern Philomels Sustain our spirits with their roundelays. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE SONNET by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE TO SHAKESPEARE by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE ADDRESS TO CERTAIN GOLD-FISHES by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE DEATH-BED REFLECTIONS OF MICHAEL-ANGELO by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE DEDICATORY SONNET TO S. T. COLERIDGE by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE EARLY DEATH by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE FEAR by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE FRIENDSHIP by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE HAGAR by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE |
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