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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT ROME (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this, ye gods, the capitolian hill?
Last Line: Change, with a brow not insolent, though stern.
Subject(s): Rome, Italy
First Line: Is this, ye gods, the capitolian hill?
Last Line: Change, with a brow not insolent, though stern.
Subject(s): Rome, Italy
IS this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill?
Yon petty Steep in truth the fearful Rock,
Tarpeian named of yore, and keeping still
That name, a local Phantom proud to mock
The Traveller's expectation? -- Could our Will
Destroy the ideal Power within, 'twere done
Thro' what men see and touch, -- slaves wandering on,
Impelled by thirst of all but Heaven-taught skill.
Full oft, our wish obtained, deeply we sigh;
Yet not unrecompensed are they who learn,
From that depression raised, to mount on high
With stronger wing, more clearly to discern
Eternal things; and, if need be, defy
Change, with a brow not insolent, though stern.
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