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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE VICTORIAN POETS', by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: So keen, so clear thy genius, that no mist
Last Line: Lays of arcadian love, or painless death.
Subject(s): Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
First Line: So keen, so clear thy genius, that no mist
Last Line: Lays of arcadian love, or painless death.
Subject(s): Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
So keen, so clear thy genius, that no mist
Of subtlest phrase can baffle or delay
The lance-like, swift illuminating ray,
Wherewith, O art-enamored annalist,
Thy lightning logic cleaves the elusive gist
Of thoughts Protean; or, in lowlier play,
Smites tinselled weakness to a red dismay --
As swordsmen smite by one deft turn of wrist.
Yet oft that glittering and remorseless blade
Thy logic wields is dropped that thou may'st take
Some gracious lyre, and sing with liquid breath
By many a haunted dell and shadowy lake,
Where faun and naiad wander undismayed,
Lays of Arcadian love, or painless death.
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