"WHY?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be, -- Whence comes it save from fortune setting free Body and soul the purpose to pursue, God traced for both? If fetters, not a few, Of prejudice, convention, fall from me, These shall I bid men -- each in his degree Also God-guided -- bear, and gayly, too? But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty. Who, then, dares hold, emancipated thus, His fellow shall continue bound? Not I, Who live, love, labor freely, nor discuss A brother's right to freedom. That i "Why." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD] by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK THE KING'S DAUGHTER by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE DEATH OF ADONIS by THEOCRITUS KENTUCKY BELLE by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON ON SEEING BLENHEIM CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN MERCURY; ON LOSING MY POCKET MILTON AT LUSS NEAR BEN LOMOND by ROBERT ANDREWS |