Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace Disperse their rays on every vulgar spirit, Whilst I in darkness, in the self-same place, Get not one glance to recompense my merit? So doth the plowman gaze the wand'ring star, And only rest contented with the light, That never learn'd what constellations are Beyond the bent of his unknowing sight. O why should Beauty, custom to obey, To their gross sense apply herself so ill? Would God I were as ignorant as they, When I am made unhappy by my skill, Only compell'd on this poor good to boast: Heav'ns are not kind to them that know them most. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SAINT MAY: A CITY LYRIC by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY FRAGMENTS OF A POEM ON THE EXCELLENCE OF CHRISTIANITY by JAMES HAY BEATTIE ROSALIND'S SCROLL by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING PUTTING THE CREAM IN THE WELL OF VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY A LAKE MEMORY by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL OUR WASHINGTON by ELIZA W. DURBIN |