经典英文短诗精选：The Poet

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经典英文短诗精选：The Poet　　What instinct forces man to journey on,
　　Urged by a longing blind but dominant!
0 x- J  G- F% M9 M/ x　　Nothing he sees can hold him, nothing daunt
$ m4 b$ D' Q  ~7 Y　　His never failing eagerness. The sun
　　Setting in splendour every night has won
　　His vassalage; those towers flamboyant
　　Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt
　　His daylight wanderings. Forever done
" V, {  e( P+ ]  V+ m4 c) y8 l　　With simple joys and quiet happiness
1 u% U  |. G. X% T3 q8 F　　He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
　　Though faint with weariness he must possess
　　Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;
　　He spurns life's human friendships to profess
　　Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy.