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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET. PHILOSOPHY, by GEORGE LUNT Poet's Biography
First Line: Throughout the world in vain, in vain they sought
Last Line: Nor mind, nor nature breathed heaven's holiest whisper, rest.
Subject(s): Nature; Rest; Thought; Thinking
First Line: Throughout the world in vain, in vain they sought
Last Line: Nor mind, nor nature breathed heaven's holiest whisper, rest.
Subject(s): Nature; Rest; Thought; Thinking
THROUGHOUT the world in vain, in vain they sought
Some solid good to fill the restless mind;
The long desired, but still unfound, to find,
The heart's last refuge and the goal of thought;
What, in its depths, the burning soul has wrought
Of visions moulded with consuming fire,
And all that sprang spontaneous to the lyre,
In harmonies of golden words, they caught;
Upon the mountain-top, where silence broods,
They questioned of the stars; and by the shore
Asked of its waves, and pondered all the lore
Of peopled plain, or taught in solemn woods;
Without,—within,—alas, how vain the quest!
Nor mind, nor nature breathed Heaven's holiest whisper, REST.
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