INNUMERABLE beauties, thou white hair Spread forth like to a region of the air, Curl'd like a sea, and like ethereal fire Dost from thy vital principles aspire To be the highest element of fair; From thy proud heights thou so command'st desire, That when it would presume, it grows despair, And from itself a vengeance doth require; While absolute in that thy brave command, Knitting each hair into an awful frown Like to an host of lightnings, thou dost stand To ruin all that fall not prostrate down, While to the humble like a beamy crown Thou seemest, wreath'd by some immortal hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HANDSOME KNIGHT by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II TO SAN FRANCISCO by S. J. ALEXANDER THE PLOUGHMAN by KARLE WILSON BAKER THE SONG OF THE SAVOYARDS by HENRY AMES BLOOD THE FOREIGNERS: 2 by CARLOS BULOSAN |