Sonnet 18

Sonnet 18

Friday, September 26, 2008

Flower in the Crannied Wall - Lord Tennyson Alfred

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if i could understand
what you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

2 comments:

SndR said...

The flower is pretty but the root is ugly. But you need to pluck it all or the beauty will be temporary as it will die without it's root...

Bertolt Kronstadt (问号) said...

Hey man. It's me: Brian from LKW. Cool poem you posted up. It really makes a lot of sense how humanity tries to figure out nature. At times they actually go the wrong way and actually destroying it. I guess we have long way before we can actually get the full idea.