Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON


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First Line: O let me leave the plains behind
Last Line: The long heave of the surging world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


O LET me leave the plains behind,
And let me leave the vales below
Into the highlands of the mind,
Into the mountains let me go.

My Keats, my Spenser, loved I well;
Gardens and statued lawns were these;
But not for ever would I dwell
In arbours and in pleasances.

Here are the heights, crest beyond crest,
Loftiest of all things cloud-encurled:
And I will watch from Everest
The long heave of the surging world.





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