 | The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder |  |
1. PART I
TWO WORLDS
I—THE VENUS OF MILO
Grace, majesty, and the calm bliss of life;No conscious war 'twixt human will and duty;
Here breathes, forever free from pain and strife,
The old, untroubled pagan world of beauty.
II—MICHAEL ANGELO'S SLAVE
Of life, of death the mystery and woe,Witness in this mute, carven stone the whole.
That suffering smile were never fashioned so
Before the world had wakened to a soul.
| The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder | |