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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEAK IS THE WILL OF MAN, HIS JUDGMENT BLIND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind
Subject(s): Imagination
Last Line: And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind
Subject(s): Imagination
'Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind;
Remembrance persecutes, and Hope betrays;
Heavy is woe;--and joy, for human-kind,
A mournful thing, so transient is the blaze!'
Thus might he paint our lot of mortal days
Who wants the glorious faculty assigned
To elevate the more-than-reasoning Mind,
And colour life's dark cloud with orient rays.
Imagination is that sacred power,
Imagination lofty and refined:
'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of Faith, and round the Sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.
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