A poem should be, as our best ever are, Golden of heart like a rose or a star. A poem should be, like the brook that you hear Sing down the mountainside, lovely and clear. Yet in its music a poem should hold That which is felt but may never be told. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AFRICAN CHIEF by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING' by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH THE DEVIL'S WALK [ON EARTH] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE SOLITUDE OF SPACE by FLORA CECILE ALLISON THE POET'S SHIELD by ARCHILOCHUS TO MY FRIENDS, WHO RIDICULED A TENDER LEAVE-TAKING by MATTHEW ARNOLD |