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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAPENTAKE; TO ALFRED TENNYSON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine
Last Line: For thy allegiance to the poet's art.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
First Line: Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine
Last Line: For thy allegiance to the poet's art.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
POET! I come to touch thy lance with mine;
Not as a knight, who on the listed field
Of tourney touched his adversary's shield
In token of defiance, but in sign
Of homage to the mastery, which is thine,
In English song; nor will I keep concealed,
And voiceless as a rivulet frost-congealed,
My admiration for thy verse divine.
Not of the howling dervishes of song,
Who craze the brain with their delirious dance,
Art thou, O sweet historian of the heart!
Therefore to thee the laurel-leaves belong,
To thee our love and our allegiance,
For thy allegiance to the poet's art.
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