Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Bars let down into pastures measureless; The air we breathe to-day, through thee, is freer Than, buoyant with its freshness, we can guess. Thy forehead toward the unrisen morning set, Nature and life faced with their own calm gaze, No human thought inhospitably met, Thou beckonest onward, as in earlier days: A voice that wandered towards us, like a breeze, From great expanses beyond time and space, With hints of unexplored eternities Stirring the sluggish soul new paths to trace; A word that gave us lightness, as of wings; Home, welcome, freedom in the Everywhere! The mention of thy name, like Nature's, brings A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY NO SECOND TROY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS AUTUMNAL SONNET by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM PARABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN CLEVEDON VERSES: 6. PER OMNIA DEUS by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND by ROBERT BROWNING REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED, EPISTLES TO THE GREAT by JOHN BYROM |