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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WHITE LIGHTS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in from delos came the gold Last Line: That there was triumph in the air. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City | |||
(BROADWAY, 1906) WHEN in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The tumult of Euripides, When men met Aristophanes, Who fledged them with immortal quills-- Here, where the time knew none of these, There were some islands and some hills. When Rome went ravening to see The sons of mothers end their days, When Flaccus bade Leuconoe To banish her Chaldean ways, When first the pearled, alembic phrase Of Maro into music ran-- Here there was neither blame nor praise For Rome, or for the Mantuan. When Avon, like a faery floor, Lay freighted, for the eyes of One, With galleons laden long before By moonlit wharves in Avalon-- Here, where the white lights have begun To seethe a way for something fair, No prophet knew, from what was done, That there was triumph in the air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY by SARA TEASDALE SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN TWO WOMEN by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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