Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 1. THE PRINTING-PRESS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: In boyhood's days we read with keen delight Last Line: And spake -- and heaven and earth in answer rung. Subject(s): Printing & Printers | ||||||||
IN boyhood's days we read with keen delight How young Aladdin rubbed his lamp and raised The towering Djin whose form his soul amazed, Yet who was pledged to serve him day and night. But Gutenberg evoked a giant sprite Of vaster power, when Europe stood and gazed To see him rub his types with ink. Then blazed Across the lands a glorious shape of light, Who stripped the cowl from priests, the crown from kings, And hand in hand with Faith and Science wrought To free the struggling spirit's limed wings, And guard the ancestral throne of sovereign Thought. The world was dumb. Then first it found its tongue And spake -- and heaven and earth in answer rung. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: FUST AND FRIENDS by ROBERT BROWNING A PLEASANT INFECTIVE AGAINST PRINTING by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE HAPPY PRINTER by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE PASSIONATE PRINTER TO HIS LOVE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON TO AN EDITOR (ON THE RETURN OF A MANUSCRIPT) by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON ZENGER THE PRINTER by ARTHUR GUITERMAN ERICH THE PRINTER—(B. 1883-D. 1938): (1929) by DAVID WAGONER CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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