Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TERMINUS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the roll of folly and of crime Last Line: The church bowed eastward still, and all was well. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship | ||||||||
Upon the roll of folly and of crime Their lives a fact, for intellectual scorn - But more for Christian pity, so forlorn And abject stands it in the stream of Time! The Imperial mandate ran, that, on a day Held sacred to the Lord of limitations, The Christian faith should have its conquering way Barred up, and so the disenchanted nations Go back to Jove and Phoebus and the fanes; Messiah! and the block-God Terminus! O stolid humour! O elaborate pains, All lost and wasted! for it is not thus That truth is stopt; Saints bled, but idols fell, The Church bowed eastward still, and all was well. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL by CLAUDE MCKAY LITTLE WHITE CHURCH by MARILYN NELSON A STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE by ROBERT FROST MATE (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ANSWER TO PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by GEORGE SANTAYANA HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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