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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A PALMETTO, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through all that year-scarred agony of height Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Palmetto Trees | |||
Through all that year-scarred agony of height, Inblest of bough or bloom, to where expands His wandy circlet with his bladed bands Dividing every wind, or loud or light, To termless hymns of love and old despite, Yon tall palmetto in the twilight stands, Bare Dante of these purgatorial sands That glimmer marginal to the monstrous night. Comes him a Southwind from the scented vine, It breathes of Beatrice through all his blades, North, East or West, Guelph-wind or Ghibelline, 'Tis shredded into music down the shades; All sea-breaths, land-breaths, systol, diastol, Sway, minstrels of that grief-melodious Soul. 1880 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BIRTHDAY SONG by SIDNEY LANIER 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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