The Mind
Idle Fame
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript (1920, ed. Blunden & Porter)
The Mind
I would not wish the burning blaze
Of fame around a restless world,
The thunder and the storm of praise
In crowded tumults heard and hurled.
I would not be a flower to stand
The stare of every passer-bye;
But in some nook of fairyland,
Seen in the praise of beauty's eye.
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