Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET. TO A BALLOON LADEN WITH KNOWLEDGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even Last Line: Shall dart like truth where falsehood yet has been. Subject(s): Balloons | ||||||||
BRIGHT ball of flame that through the gloom of even Silently takest thine ethereal way, And with surpassing glory dimm'st each ray Twinkling amid the dark blue depths of Heaven, -- Unlike the fire thou bearest, soon shalt thou Fade like a meteor in surrounding gloom, Whilst that unquenchable is doomed to glow A watch-light by the patriot's lonely tomb; A ray of courage to the oppressed and poor; A spark, though gleaming on the hovel's hearth, Which through the tyrant's gilded domes shall roar; A beacon in the darkness of the Earth; A sun which, o'er the renovated scene, Shall dart like Truth where Falsehood yet has been. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS FANTAISIES DECORATIVES: 2. LES BALLOONS by OSCAR WILDE THE 'MONSTRE' BALLOON by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE BALLOON MAN by JEAN M. BATCHELOR THE TOY BALLOONS by EDNA BECKER THE BALLOON by EMILY DICKINSON ODE TO MESSRS. GREEN, HOLLOND, AND MONCK MASON by THOMAS HOOD THE BALLOON MAN by HOWARD MUMFORD JONES A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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