Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poet's Biography First Line: If you shall meet them, as you doubtless may Last Line: De la mare, abercrombie, most renowned.' Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | ||||||||
IF you shall meet them, as you doubtless may, Wandering some street within their heavenly Rome, So much like this, but lacking Peter's dome And all the smaller churches, and they say: 'Who now among the English wears the bay? Within whose mind now keeps our Muse her home? Or has the world so triumphed she may come Into no thoughts reserved her for long stay?' Then (our best embassy) tell them: 'There is No age, but yours and Shakespeare's, such as this, Where half a hundred are with laurel crowned. Take, of the older, these first on my tongue, Yeats, Hardy, Bridges; of the mighty young, De la Mare, Abercrombie, most renowned.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART by LOUISE BOGAN THE SAVING WAY by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT by ALICE FULTON YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY by JAMES GALVIN SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER READING SHAKESPERE by EDWIN MARKHAM FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG by CHARLES WILLIAMS TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 8. AFTER RONSARD by CHARLES WILLIAMS |
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