Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN AT LUDLOW CASTLE (IN THE HALL WHERE COMUS WAS FIRST PERFORMED), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where wall and sill and broken window-frame Last Line: And they are more than ghosts who lived and sang. Subject(s): Ludlow Castle, England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
WHERE wall and sill and broken window-frame Are bright with flowers unroofed against the skies, And nothing but the nesting jackdaws' cries Breaks the hushed even, once imperial came The muse that moved transfiguring the name Of Puritan, and beautiful and wise The verses fell, forespeaking Paradise, And poetry set all this hall aflame. Now silence has come down upon the place Where life and song so wonderfully went, And the mole's afoot now where that passion rang, Yet Comus now first moves his laurelled pace, For song and life for ever are unspent, And they are more than ghosts who lived and sang. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB |
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