Still Too Much?

This William Wordsworth poem was submitted to me for another site of mine for Poetry Month. It's interesting how the sentiment still holds two centuries later. Sad but true.

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US (1807)
by William Wordsworth



The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear Tritorn blow his wreathed horn.

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