YOU, who un-united to yourself roam about the world, Seeking some person or some thing to which to be united— Seeking to ease that way the pain at your heart— Deceive not yourself, deceive not others. For united to that which you really are you are indeed beautiful, united to Yourself you are strong, united to yourself you are already in the hearts of those you love; But disunited you are none of these things— And how shall men desire a mere shell, or how will you offer them a husk saying, There is fruit within, when there is no fruit—but only vacancy? And these are the Gods that seek ever to come in the forms of men—the ageless immortal Gods—to make of earth that Paradise by their presence— But while you bar the way and weave your own little plans and purposes like a tangle of cobwebs across the inner door, How shall they make their entrance and habitation with you? How shall you indeed know what it is to be Yourself? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO FUNERALS: 2. by LOUIS UNTERMEYER PHILIP, MY KING by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK JEALOUS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR WHAT MY LOVER SAID by HOMER GREENE THE SONG OF THE SHIRT by THOMAS HOOD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 43. ALLAH-AL-KARIM by EDWIN ARNOLD CELESTIAL HEIGHTS by ALFRED AUSTIN |