Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERSONAL SONNET: TO HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think earth's noblest, most pathetic sight Last Line: Let golden dreams ascend, and thoughts of fire! Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) | ||||||||
I THINK earth's noblest, most pathetic sight Is some old poet, round whose laurel-crown The long gray locks are streaming softly down; -- Whose evening, touched by prescient shades of night, Grows tranquillized, in calm, ethereal light: -- Such, such art thou, O master! worthier grown In the fair sunset of thy full renown, -- Poising, perchance, thy spiritual wings for flight! Ah, heaven! why shouldst thou from thy place depart? God's court is thronged with minstrels, rich with song; Even now, a new note swells the immaculate choir, -- But thou, whose strains have filled our lives so long, Still from the altar of thy reverent heart Let golden dreams ascend, and thoughts of fire! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE SHADES OF NIGHT by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LONGFELLOW by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS LONGFELLOW WROTE IT by BERTON BRALEY LONGFELLOW by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH IN MEMORIAM by MIRIAM DEL BANCO LONGFELLOW by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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