LET those who will hang rapturously o'er The flowing eloquence of Plato's page; Repeat, with flashing eyes, the sounds that pour From Homer's verse as with a torrent's rage; Let those who list ask Sully to assuage Wild hearts with high-wrought periods, and restore The reign of rhetoric; or maxims sage Winnow from Seneca's sententious lore, Not these, but Judah's hallowed bards, to me Are dear: Isaiah's noble energy; The temperate grief of Job; the artless strain Of Ruth and pastoral Amos; the high songs Of David; and the tale of Joseph's wrongs. Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REBECCA'S HYMN, FR. IVANHOE by WALTER SCOTT THE BLACKBIRD by ALFRED TENNYSON THE INDIAN UPON GOD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS LONDON WIND by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA DROUTH WILL BE ENDED by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD TO HARRY ELLIS WOOLDRIDGE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |