"I HID within the everlasting dearth, -- And who art thou that comest? dreadful thou art Unto all Being who hast power to dart Thy weird self-knowledge through creation's girth! What is thy purpose? Wherefore was thy birth? Thou of the mystic understanding heart! What thinkest thou, seeing to-day depart The last Unknown from the all-conquered earth? "What prospect, if not this, should give thee pause, O Human Eye, whose lustre, age by age, Spreads through the blind deep wherein thou wast born? Of the Eternal Dark thy gendering was; Eternal Want has been thy pilgrimage; Oh, to what cold horizons bring'st thou morn!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE JOURNEY by EMILY DICKINSON WOMAN'S CONSTANCY by JOHN DONNE MARRIAGE A LA MODE: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN GOD'S ACRE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 5 by RICHARD BARNFIELD THE DEAD MISTRESS by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE THE SURPRISE by GAMALIEL BRADFORD THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO by ROBERT BURNS MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: MASQUERS FIRST DANCE by THOMAS CAMPION |