SEAT of all woes! Though Nature's firm decree The narrowing soul with narrowing dungeon bind, Yet was his free of motion as the wind, And held both worlds, of spirit and sense, in fee. In charmed communion with his dual mind He wandered Spain, himself both knight and hind, Redressing wrongs he knew must ever be. His humor wise could see life's long deceit, Man's baffled aims, nor therefore both despise; His knightly nature could ill fortune greet Like an old friend. Whose ever such kind eyes That pierced so deep, such scope, save his whose feet By Avon ceased 'neath the same April's skies? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KING DAVID by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET LINES BY CLAUDIA by EMILY JANE BRONTE THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE by ROBERT MORRIS A VERMONT BREAKFAST by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY FIRES OF LOVE by VILETA NELSON CHARTIER EPITAPH ON THE REV. SAMUEL CLARK, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 42 by NATHANIEL COTTON |