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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN IMMEMORIAM, by EDWARD BRADLEY First Line: We seek to know, and knowing seek Last Line: O voices all! Like ye I die! Alternate Author Name(s): Bede, Cuthbert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) | |||
WE seek to know, and knowing seek; We seek, we know, and every sense Is trembling with the great Intense And vibrating to what we speak. We ask too much, we seek too oft, We know enough, and should no more; And yet we skim through Fancy's lore And look to earth and not aloft. A something comes from out the gloom; I know it not, nor seek to know; I only see it swell and grow, And more than this world would presume. Meseems, a circling void I fill, And I, unchanged where all is changed; It seems unreal; I own it strange, Yet nurse the thoughts I cannot kill. I hear the ocean's surging tide, Raise quiring on its carol-tune; I watch the golden-sickled moon, And clearer voices call beside. O Sea! whose ancient ripples lie On red-ribbed sands where seaweeds shone; O Moon! whose golden sickle's gone; O Voices all! like ye I die! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE YOUTH OF NATURE: WORDSWORTH'S COUNTRY by MATTHEW ARNOLD RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCE by GEORGE BARKER ON A PORTRAIT OF WORDSWORTH BY B.R. HAYDON by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE LOST LEADER by ROBERT BROWNING DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION] by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ON WORDSWORTH by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE WHITE KNIGHT'S SONG by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE COW IN APPLE TIME by ROBERT FROST THE YANKEE PRIVATEER by ARTHUR HALE TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775] by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |
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