Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine Declined, was hastening now with prone career The World Beautiful From "Paradise Lost." The Tiger Tiger, tiger, burning bright In what distant deeps or skies And what shoulder, and what art What the hammer, what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? The World Beautiful What the anvil? What dread grasp When the stars threw down their spears, Did he who made the lamb make thee? Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? WILLIAM BLAKE. The Spacious Firmament on High And spangled heavens, a shining frame, The unwearied sun from day to day Soon as the evening shades prevail, Whilst all the stars that round her burn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, What though in solemn silence, all JOSEPH ADDISON. The World Beautifu Green Things Growing Oh, the fluttering and the pattering of those green things growing! How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing; "Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, 66 66 Lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings; They will be found softer than ringdoves' cooings.” Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, "They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour And hastes to bed." "If so the sweetness of the wheat Into my soul might pass, And the clear courage of the grass." 66 Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies; Little flower-but if I could understand OH, the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things grow ing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing. Oh, the fluttering and the pattering of those green things growing! How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing; In the wonderful white of the weird moonlight Or the dim dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing. I love, I love them so,―my green things grow ing! And I think that they love me, without false showing; |