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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF THE FOOLISH CALL THEM 'FLOWERS', by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "at that grand ""right hand""!" Subject(s): Nature; Science | |||
If the foolish, call them "flowers" - Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants "Classify" them It is just as well! Those who read the "Revelations" Must not criticize Those who read the same Edition - With beclouded Eyes! Could we stand with that Old "Moses" - "Canaan" denied - Scan like him, the stately landscape On the other side - Doubtless, we should deem superfluous Many Sciences, Not pursued by learned Angels In scholastic skies! Low amid that glad Belles lettres Grant that we may stand, Stars, amid profound Galaxies - At that grand "Right hand"! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REACTIONARY ESSAY ON APPLIED SCIENCE by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#54) by MARVIN BELL THE POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM by HILAIRE BELLOC AN AMERICAN SCENE by NORMAN DUBIE WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE by ROBERT FROST THE TREE FALLING IN A VACANT FOREST by LINDA GREGG FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION by EMILY DICKINSON |
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