Category: Poetry
If you were to ask twenty intelligent people, "What is the Thames?" the answer due to you from each would be--"a river." And yet this would hardly be matter to satisfy your enquiring mind. You would more probably say, "What do you know of the Thames?" or, "Describe the Thames...
And so we have Milton and Herrick, both poets, the one a great man, the other not. It is a wide difference. Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet,...
1. Chapter 1If you were to ask twenty intelligent people, "What is the Thames?" the answer due to you from each would be--"a river." And yet this would hardly be matter to satisfy your enqu...
3. Chapter 3Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy, Sphere-born harmonious Sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreathed sense a...