@3O little sister Heart, without thy big brother the rude Brain what wouldst thou do? So I see thee sitting in thy solitary chamber, poring over a figure in a cameo— So yearning lost desirous, faint forgetful, Failing almost thy daily service of the body. Then comes thy brother and snatches thee by the hand, saying, "Come out here into the world: See all these wonderful things, and all there is to do;" And talks so eloquent, so persuasively, Soon thou art busy with him and his affairs, and the great world outside there in the sun; Till presently he rests or sleeps awhile—and thou returning Gazest again on the cameo in thy chamber@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BE STILL, MY SOUL by ARCHILOCHUS THE KNIGHTS: THE POET AND HIS RIVALS by ARISTOPHANES PSALM 102 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE L'INDIFFERENT; WATTEAU; THE LOUVRE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY PLAINS BORN by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. |