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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA: NOTES, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They all muddy the water that it may seem deep Last Line: Does it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk | |||
They all muddle their water that it may seem deep. And fain would they thereby prove themselves reconcilers: but mediaries and mixers are they unto me, and half-and-half, and impure!- Ah, I cast indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God. Thus did the sea give a stone to the hungry one. And they themselves may well originate from the sea. Certainly, one findeth pearls in them: thereby they are the more like hard molluscs. And instead of a soul, I have often found in them salt slime. They have learned from the sea also its vanity: is not the sea the peacock of peacocks? Even before the ugliest of all buffaloes doth it spread out its tail; never doth it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM LOFTY MOUNTAINS by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE THE DRUNKEN SONG by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE THE WANDERER by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE TO RICHARD WAGNER by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE VENICE by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE NO BABY IN THE HOUSE by CLARA G. DOLLIVER ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK THE MAID'S LAMENT; ELIZABETHAN by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
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