That Phaeton of our day, Who'd make another milky way, And burn the world up with his ray; By us an undisputed seer, ''" Who'd drive his flaming car so near Unto our shuddering mortal sphere, Disgracing all our slender worth, And scorching up the living earth, To prove his heavenly birth. The silver spokes, the golden tire, Are glowing with unwonted fire, And ever nigher roll and nigher; The pins and axle melted are, The silver radii fly afar, Ah, he will spoil his Father's car! Who let him have the steeds he cannot steer? Henceforth the sun will not shine for a year; And we shall Ethiops all appear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ODES I, 5 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 68. AL-KADAR by EDWIN ARNOLD BARCAROLE: DE VIGNY by E. G. B. MYSTERIOUS LIFE by EMMA BERGSTROM |