If the foolish, call them "flowers" - Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants "Classify" them It is just as well! Those who read the "Revelations" Must not criticize Those who read the same Edition - With beclouded Eyes! Could we stand with that Old "Moses" - "Canaan" denied - Scan like him, the stately landscape On the other side - Doubtless, we should deem superfluous Many Sciences, Not pursued by learned Angels In scholastic skies! Low amid that glad Belles lettres Grant that we may stand, Stars, amid profound Galaxies - At that grand "Right hand"! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 26 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ONLY A WOMAN by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD by ROBERT FROST A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS by ABRAHAM LINCOLN |