Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BUGLE, by GRENVILLE MELLEN First Line: O! Wild, enchanting horn! Last Line: Grenville mellen. Subject(s): Bugles | ||||||||
O! wild enchanting horn! Whose music up the deep and dewy air Swells to the clouds, and calls on Echo there, 'Till a new melody is born! Wake, wake again; the night Is bending from her throne of beauty down, With still stars beaming on her azure crown, Intense, and eloquently bright. Night, at its pulseless noon! When the far voice of waters mourns in song, And some tired watch-dog lazily and long Barks at the melancholy moon. Hark! how it sweeps away, Soaring and dying on the silent sky, As if some sprite of sound went wandering by, With lone halloo and roundelay! Swell, swell in glory out! Thy tones come pouring on my leaping heart, And my stirr'd spirit hears thee with a start As boyhood's old remember'd shout. O! have ye heard that peal, From sleeping city's moon-bathed battlements, Or from the guarded field and warrior tents, Like some near breath around you steal? Or have ye, in the roar Of sea, or storm, or battle, heard it rise, Shriller than eagle's clamor, to the skies, Where wings and tempests never soar? Go, go no other sound, No music that of air or earth is born, Can match the mighty music of that horn, On midnight's fathomless profound! Grenville Mellen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PRINCESS: [BUGLE] SONG by ALFRED TENNYSON BUGLE SONG OF PEACE; A PROPHECY FOR MEMORIAL DAY by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK THE BUGLER; A CASE STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR by LIN DAVIES SONG TO A SCOTCH AIR by REGINALD HEBER THE CALL OF THE BUGLES by RICHARD HOVEY THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND by WILLIAM SHARP THE LAST POST OF SAMADEN by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD THE BUGLE by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON FAINT BLOW THE BUGLES OF MEMORY by IRIS LORA THORPE NEEDLESS FEAR by EMILY DICKINSON LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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