In pity for man's darkening thought He walked that room and issued thence In Galilean turbulence; The Babylonian starlight brought A fabulous, formless darkness in; Odour of blood when Christ was slain Made all platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams; The herald's cry, the soldier's tread Exhaust his glory and his might: Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO WHISTLER, AMERICAN; ON LOAN EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS AT TATE GALLERY by EZRA POUND DEWEY AT MANILA [MAY 1, 1898] by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 21 by OMAR KHAYYAM SONNET: 4 by RICHARD BARNFIELD S. PHILIP YE DEACON by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |