So, we'll go no more a roving So, we'll go no more a roving "So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by (George Gordon) Lord Byron (1788–1824), and included in a letter to Thomas Moore on 28 February 1817. Moore published the poem in 1830 as part of "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". It evocatively describes the fatigue of age conquering the restlessness of youth. Byron wrote the poem at the age of twenty-nine. In the letter to Thomas Moore, the poem is preceded by an account of its genesis. "At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The Carnival--that is,
The Human Abstract (poem) the poem is the replacement of the following passage: As was observed by the scholars, the ideas of the poem correspond with some other works of Blake which show deeper insight. For example: Here is the mentioned fragment from Chap: III of "The Book of Ahania": Sampson noticed that "the 'Tree of Mystery' signifies 'Moral Law'", and cited the relevant passage from Blake's "Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion", f. 28, ll. 14-19: — Gleckner concluded his analysis with the statement that the poem "The Human Abstract", as a whole, is “a remarkably ambitious experiment in progressive enrichment, and