Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O.M.B. (DIED NOVEMBER, 1874), by FORD MADOX BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: As one who strives from some fast steamer's Last Line: Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! Subject(s): Brown, Oliver Madox (1855-1874) | ||||||||
As one who strives from some fast steamer's side To note amid the backward-spinning foam And keep in view some separate wreath therefrom, That cheats him even the while he views it glide (Merging in other foam-tracks stretching wide), So strive we to keep clear that day our home First saw you riven -- a memory thence to roam, A shatter'd blossom on the eternal tide! O broken promises that show'd so fair! O morning sun of wit set in despair! O brows made smooth as with the Muse's chrism! O Oliver! ourselves Death's cataclysm Must soon o'ertake -- but not in vain -- not where Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND' by FORD MADOX BROWN THE WALKING MAN OF RODIN by CARL SANDBURG WHAT DO I CARE by SARA TEASDALE GO DOWN DEATH; A FUNERAL SERMON by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALCAEUS by WILLIAM JONES SONNET: 10 by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE] by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (2) by JANE AUSTEN |
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