Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IMMORTAL URN, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN First Line: Unwedded bride, immortal shepherdess! Last Line: Gave life to them and immortality. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Unwedded bride, immortal shepherdess! Not, as sang Keats, because an artist traced Your wistful form in sheerest loveliness Upon an urn, you shall endure, more chaste Than Diane; but because the poet caught The dream divine, the aura none can see That haunts your yearning virgin pose, and wrought, In phrases of pure gold, your effigy. Poised, faithful lover, who shall ever live, Unsated yet triumphant, through all time, Beneath cool trees that still their shade shall give, Perennial in imperishable rhyme, -- Deft was the unknown potter's patient art To limn, thus, love and youth so faithfully, But 'twas the poet's understanding heart Gave life to them and immortality. | 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 THE UNKNOWN by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN |
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