Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | II. Prayer and Aspiration | | In a Lecture-Room | | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| | | AWAY, haunt thou not me, | |
| Thou vain Philosophy! | |
| Little hast thou bestead, | |
| Save to perplex the head, | |
| And leave the spirit dead. | 5 |
| Unto thy broken cisterns wherefore go, | |
| While from the secret treasure-depths below, | |
| Fed by the skyey shower, | |
| And clouds that sink and rest on hill-tops high, | |
| Wisdom at once, and Power, | 10 |
| Are welling, bubbling forth, unseen, incessantly? | |
| Why labor at the dull mechanic oar, | |
| When the fresh breeze is blowing, | |
| And the strong current flowing, | |
| Right onward to the Eternal Shore? | 15 | | | |
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