Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee Defecates to a pure transparency, That intercepts no light and adds no stain -- There Reason is, and then begins her reign! But alas! [Concludes with a passage in Italian from Dante's Paradiso, Canto I, translated into Enlish by Henry Francis Cary]: With false information thou thyself Makest dull; so that thou seest not the thing Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE EULALIE; A SONG by EDGAR ALLAN POE A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W. by PHILLIS WHEATLEY THE INCENSE BURNER by ABUS SALT SONG: FOR THEE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT AS LOVELY AS THEY by EVA MARBELL BONDI THE REED by HENRY BERNARD CARPENTER THE TOLLMAN'S DAUGHTER by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN AN EPITAPH ON MY DEAR AUNT, MRS. ANN STANHOPE by CHARLES COTTON |