Yes! - doubtless 'twas delightful beyond measure To Daedalus to sail, as in a skiff, Through the blue seas of iEther, high o'er cliff And tower! Worth more than all the golden treasure Of earth too, must, methinks, have been the pleasure Astolfo felt, when, on his hippogriff, He went sky-scaling, to discover if He might mount to the moon, and there make seizure Of the poor Paladin's abstracted brains.* And yet I wish not to be winged, or Thus raised above Earth's petty pains and plains. And why? Because I know that if I were, The devil would dispatch my Creditor I'p after me, to dun me in the air! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RECRUIT by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by SAM WALTER FOSS LUKE HAVERGAL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE OTHER WORLD by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE by ALFRED TENNYSON THE VACANT CAGE (1) by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |