PEACE-LOVING man, of humble heart and true What dost thou here? Fierce is the city's crowd; the lordly few Are dull of ear! Sore pain it was to thee, -- till thou didst quit Thy patriarch-throne at length, as though for power unfit. So works the All-wise! our services dividing Not as we ask: For the world's profit, by our gifts deciding Our duty-task. See in king's courts loth Jeremias plead; And slow-tongued Moses rule by eloquence of deed! Yes! thou, bright Angel of the East! didst rear The Cross divine, Borne high upon thy liquid accents, where Men mock'd the Sign; Till that cold city heard thy battle-cry, And hearts were stirr'd, and deem'd a Pentecost was nigh. Thou couldst a people raise, but couldst not rule: -- So, gentle one, Heaven set thee free, -- for, ere thy years were full, Thy work was done; According thee the lot thou lovedst best, To muse upon the past, -- to serve, yet be at rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 41. LOVE REQUIRES NO ENTREATIES by PHILIP AYRES THE HEAVENS ARE OUR RIDDLE by HERBERT BATES THE LAME CHILD by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR FUNERAL ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF HIS VERY GOOD FRIEND MR. MICHAEL DRAYTON by ASTON COCKAYNE |