AFFECTIONS, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, Impulse and Reason, Freedom and Control-- So men, unravelling God's harmonious whole, Rend in a thousand shreds this life of ours. Vain labour! Deep and broad, where none may see, Spring the foundations of the shadowy throne Where man's one Nature, queen-like, sits alone, Centred in a majestic unity; And rays her powers, like sister islands, seen Linking their coral arms under the sea: Or cluster'd peaks, with plunging gulfs between Spann'd by aerial arches, all of gold; Whereo'er the chariot wheels of Life are roll'd In cloudy circles, to eternity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A WEALTHY MAN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (1) by GEORGE HERBERT THE WIND ON THE HILLS by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER ROCOCO by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE REQUEST. TO LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |