Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE (MUSIC-MAKERS), by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the music makers, / and we are the dreamers of dreams Last Line: Or one that is coming to birth. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Variant Title(s): The Music-makers;ode Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Liberty; Theology | ||||||||
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire's glory. One man with a dream at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down. We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES |
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