The Sonnet [Alone It Stands In Poesy's Fair Land]

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Title:     The Sonnet [Alone It Stands In Poesy's Fair Land]
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [More Titles by Wilcox]

Alone it stands in Poesy's fair land,
A temple by the muses set apart;
A perfect structure of consummate art,
By artists builded and by genius planned,
Beyond the reach of the apprentice hand,
Beyond the ken of the untutored heart,
Like a fine carving in a common mart,
Only the favoured few will understand.
A chef d'auvre toiled over with great care,
Yet which the unseeing careless crowd goes by,
A plainly set, but well-cut solitaire,
An ancient bit of pottery, too rare
To please or hold aught save the special eye,
These only with the sonnet can compare.

[The end]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem: Sonnet [Alone It Stands In Poesy's Fair Land]

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