What meanwhile of my work for world of men? What of the Grecian Isles and Marathon, And phalanx that went forth with Philip's son To slay dusk hordes beyond the Asian fen? -- What of my solemn midnights with the pen, The critic's insight and the poet's song? -- Was I at last to be thus thwarted, then, -- I who had struggled for those things so long? . . . To know my story to the lowest pit, Circle by circle down to deepest Hell, Needs must you know Ambition has in it Meanings that woman's love alone can spell: Though I said little, she sensed my bondage, she, . . . And brooded (unbeknown) . . . to set me free. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON CATULLUS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 5 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WHEN THE COWS COME HOME by AGNES E. MITCHELL MY CREED by HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP by EMMA HART WILLARD THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |