Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD MONTEM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: I lift mine eyes, and lo! Impetuous tears Last Line: That sovereign calm inviolate remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence | ||||||||
I lift mine eyes, and lo! impetuous tears Bedim them, as the tides of thought o'erflow The soul's expansion. On thy peaks of snow Above the boreal revel Nature hears The chorus of the night-enkindled spheres Roll westward, while their flickering torches grow Like phantoms in the orient's warmer glow Ere yet the Dawn's imperial crest appears. But on thy deep foundations slumber Night And everlasting Silence. 'Tis their dream Alone that lingers when the darkness wanes; Amid the ephemeral seasons' bloom and blight, When earth and sky and ocean changeful seem, That sovereign Calm inviolate remains. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG OF SILENCE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON TANKA DIARY (9) by HARRYETTE MULLEN 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THIS MORNING, GOD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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