A sea-cliff carved into a bas-relief Dark thoughts and sad, conceiv'd by brooding Nature Brought forth in storm:-dread shapes of Titan stature, Emblems of Fate, and Change, Revenge, and Grief, And Death, and Life;-a caverned Hieroglyph Confronting still with thunder-blasted frieze All stress of years, and Minds, and wasting seas: The stranger nears it in his fragile skiff And hides his eyes. Few, few shall pass, great Bard, Thy dim sea-portals I Entering, fewer yet Shall pierce thy mystic meanings, deep and hard But these shall owe to thee an endless debt The Eleusinian caverns they shall tread That wind beneath man's heart; and wisdom learn with dread. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MEMORY OF THE HEART by DANIEL WEBSTER EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 43. ALL GRASP, ALL LOSE by PHILIP AYRES AUTUMN by JESSIE ALBERT BARNEY PSALM 137. 'BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON' by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE MAPLE TREE OVER THE WAY by LEVI BISHOP ANGER AND WRATH by WILLIAM BLAKE |