Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APPROACHING ELSINORE, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: To-morrow I shall be at elsinore
Last Line: Hourly the play begins at elsinore.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Elsinore, Denmark; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists


TO-MORROW I shall be at Elsinore.
When by the Thames there was no song to sing
They say that he some time the buskin wore
In Denmark, and was Player to the King.
Of men the living habitation still,
They very stones and turrets I shall see
That he remembered once, and set the quill,
And the words came -- 'Who's there?' -- 'Nay, answer me.'
So Avon plied in royal usury,
Borrowed a scene and gave a world again,
Adding a tragic immortality
To the imperial story of the Dane,
That in all kingdoms now, for ever more,
Hourly the play begins at Elsinore.





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