Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 14. JAMES SHIRLEY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dusk of day's decline was hard on dark Last Line: And reeled on slippery roads of alien art. Subject(s): Shirley, James (1596-1666) | ||||||||
THE dusk of day's decline was hard on dark When evening trembled round thy glowworm lamp That shone across her shades and dewy damp A small clear beacon whose benignant spark Was gracious yet for loiterers' eyes to mark, Though changed the watchword of our English camp Since the outposts rang round Marlowe's lion ramp, When thy steed's pace went ambling round Hyde Park. And in the thickening twilight under thee Walks Davenant, pensive in the paths where he, The blithest throat that ever carolled love In music made of morning's merriest heart, Glad Suckling, stumbled from his seat above And reeled on slippery roads of alien art. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON MR. SHIRLEY'S POEMS by THOMAS STANLEY A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A BALLAD OF LIFE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A CAMEO by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A CHRISTMAS CAROL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A FORSAKEN GARDEN by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A LEAVE-TAKING by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A MATCH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A RHYME by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ANACTORIA by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE AVE ATQUE VALE; IN MEMORY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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