Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONNET, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE First Line: Art gave it us as nature doth a shell Last Line: And all the music fled from it away. | ||||||||
ART gave it us as Nature doth a shell: It holds the murmurings of the infinite deep Of mind and thought; through its small arches creep The voices born about the sacred well; Here love and life their secret visions tell; And souls of old forgotten things that sweep In music low along the shores of sleep, Do haunt its chambers with some potent spell. Whate'er the seas have whispered to the lands A shell repeats; this sings the heart's own lay. But when I raised it dripping from the sands To bear it to my cabinet, woe the day! The tiny treasure brake within my hands, And all the music fled from it away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET'S CENTENARY by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A SONG OF BATTLE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A VOICE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AD MUSAM by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE ALL SOUL'S EVE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN APOSTOLIC MAN by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN EAGLE-SPIRIT by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN OLD SAW by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE CONSCIENCE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE COOPERATION by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE |
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