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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM: ON DURER'S 'MELANCHOLIA', by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Last Line: More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
First Line: What holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Last Line: More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
WHAT holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Not the strange sea, strange earth, or heav'n more strange;
But her own phantom dwarfing these great three,
More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.
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