Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MARTHA WASHINGTON, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down cold snow-stretches of our bitter time Last Line: Baltimore, february 22d, 1875. Subject(s): Washington, Martha (1732-1802) | ||||||||
WRITTEN FOR THE "MARTHA WASHINGTON COURT JOURNAL." DOWN cold snow-stretches of our bitter time, When windy shams and the rain-mocking sleet Of Trade have cased us in such icy rime That hearts are scarcely hot enough to beat, Thy fame, O Lady of the lofty eyes, Doth fall along the age, like as a lane Of Spring, in whose most generous boundaries Full many a frozen virtue warms again. To-day I saw the pale much-burdened form Of Charity come limping o'er the line, And straighten from the bending of the storm And flush with stirrings of new strength divine, Such influence and sweet gracious impulse came Out of the beams of thine immortal name! BALTIMORE, February 22d, 1875. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FLORIDA GHOST by SIDNEY LANIER A FLORIDA SUNDAY by SIDNEY LANIER A SEA-SHORE GRAVE by SIDNEY LANIER A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME by SIDNEY LANIER IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE by SIDNEY LANIER JONES'S PRIVATE ARGYMENT by SIDNEY LANIER |
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