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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DIZZYING SURMISE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if that fieriest substance - found so late Last Line: When the loosed afreet towered against the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 10 Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Hate; Life; Love; Destiny | |||
WHAT if that fieriest Substance -- found so late -- That cousin to the uranium of the sun -- Were proved a cause of all that we have done And dreamed and been? A source of love and hate, Vileness and valour, and beauty nobly great! What if all this, ere Nature had begun Man's fashioning, lay closed and hidden in one Miraculous God-sown seed of Life and Fate? Thus was the Genie of the Arabian tale Sealed in a vial for a thousand years Under the ocean, till a fisher's net Drew forth the vial, and the fisher set The captive free, -- but shrank amazed and pale, When the loosed Afreet towered against the Spheres. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH |
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