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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO RICHARD WATSON GILDER (2), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, on whose face I may not look
Last Line: Telegraphy of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)
First Line: Friend, on whose face I may not look
Last Line: Telegraphy of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)
FRIEND, on whose face I may not look,
So space and chance divide,
Once more I thank you for a book
Across the sundering tide;
And know once more from this, as each,
In notes or soft or strong,
You speak the universal Speech,
The Volapuk of Song.
We live, alas! in prose-rid days:
Yet though the crowd regard
Not greatly now the verse-man's lays,
The frenzy of the Bard,
Take heart. No word sincere, distinct,
Is lost. The heartfelt rhyme
May pulse for ever on the linked
Telegraphy of Time.
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