her romantic wisdom

Nature As Spirit Is Spirit.

In the literature of Romanticism
nature is spiritualized.

In communion with nature
is where wisdom will be found.

One impulse from a vernal word
May teach you more of man's worth

Than all the sages can unearth
from the indwelling soul.

Behind natural phenomena

​the Romantic poet intuits
an encompassing great will.

Polarity finally encompassed
the realm, celebrating

sides and ironic reversals.
The Romantic ideal thus yearns

through thought and feeling
for experience, for infinity.