Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A PICTURE OF THE FATES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Ye dull and loathly sisterhood forlorn! Last Line: That hath no peer in moral loveliness! Subject(s): Fates (mythology) | ||||||||
Ye dull and loathly sisterhood forlorn! Why did the fabling soul of ancient song Build up a falsehood of such dreary scorn, As that to you our being should belong? Likening a life that feels so much of heaven, And so divinely sensible of joy, To a frail thread at your cold mandate riven, For hands so pale to weave and to destroy? Soul-deadening lore! that had long since its birth, When the strange perjury of ancient creed Jarr'd in full discord, - now our hearts are freed! And solemn reason dictates to the earth, Since that most perfect Law shone forth to bless, That hath no peer in moral loveliness! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 5 by JOSEPH HALL VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 7. THE IMPECUNEOUS FOP by JOSEPH HALL APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 10 by HEINRICH HEINE THE FATES by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING IN RE A GENTLEMAN, ONE by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON A GREEK EPIGRAM IMITATED by MATTHEW PRIOR SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 24 by MATTHEW PRIOR SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9 by MATTHEW PRIOR HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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