Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 8. THE FIRESIDE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: With what a live intelligence the flame Last Line: Make talk, love, music, poetry in one. Subject(s): Fireplaces | ||||||||
WITH what a live intelligence the flame Glows and leaps up in spires of flickering red, And turns the coal just now so dull and dead To a companion -- not like those who came To weary me with iteration tame Of idle talk in shallow fancies bred. From dreary moods the cheerful fire has led My thoughts, which now their manlier strength reclaim. And like some frozen thing that feels the sun Through solitudes of winter penetrate, The frolic currents through my senses run; While fluttering whispers soft and intimate Out of the ruddy firelight of the grate Make talk, love, music, poetry in one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS by WILLIAM BARNES HEARTH SONG by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE COAL-FIRE by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH FIRESIDE DREAMS by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY THE OPEN FIRE by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST A WINTER-EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A CHARM; FOR OUR NEW FIREPLACE TO STOP ITS SMOKING by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY DEDICATION FOR A FIREPLACE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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