(ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES) HAYDON! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively on these mighty things; Forgive me that I have not Eagle's wings-- That what I want I know not where to seek: And think that I would not be over meek In rolling out upfollow'd thunderings, Even to the steep of Heliconian springs, Were I of ample strength for such a freak-- Think too, that all those numbers should be thine; Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture's hem? For when men star'd at what was most divine With browless idiotism--o'erwise phlegm-- Thou hadst beheld the Hesperean shine Of their star in the East, and gone to worship them. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOD'S GARDEN by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TO MADAME DE SEVIGNE by MATHIEU DE MONTREUIL THRENOS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY CURFEW MUST NOT RING TONIGHT by ROSE HARTWICK THORPE PRAYER FOR THIS HOUSE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR THE UNGENTLE GUEST by ANACREON |