Then in your turn demand of them and ask: 'Of all who late have joined your brotherhood, With whom in closest friendship falls your mood? With whose accomplishment? whose present task?' And Shelley: 'Of all those who doffed their mask Of earth among us and enjoy our good, Tennyson, Thompson, and Rossetti brood Nearest me, and in lyric daylight bask.' But with a graver brow the shade of Keats: 'Since Blake and Wordsworth few have climbed to be Upon the peak whence wise Mnemosyne Gravely to poets their vocation metes; Arnold not far, nor Browning; nearer, he Who knew high Eros in his earthly seats.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE CHURCHYARD AT CAMBRIDGE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DECEMBER by ELIZABETH V. AUVACHE THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND by WILLIAM BLAKE TO MR. RENTON, BERWICK by ROBERT BURNS KITCHENER'S MARCH by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR |