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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the wet sands an insect crept
Last Line: Shall 'scape oblivion's broom so long?
Subject(s): Autographs; Fossils; Thought; Thinking
First Line: O'er the wet sands an insect crept
Last Line: Shall 'scape oblivion's broom so long?
Subject(s): Autographs; Fossils; Thought; Thinking
O'ER the wet sands an insect crept
Ages ere man on earth was known--
And patient Time, while Nature slept,
The slender tracing turned to stone.
'T was the first autograph: and ours?
Prithee, how much of prose or song,
In league with the creative powers,
Shall 'scape Oblivion's broom so long?
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