Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO VIRGIL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roman virgil, thou that singest Last Line: Ever moulded by the lips of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Writing & Writers; Vergil | ||||||||
I. ROMAN Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and Dido's pyre; II. Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that sang the Works and Days, All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; III. Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word; IV. Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the laughing shepherd bound with flowers; V. Chanter of the Pollio, glorying in the blissful years again to be, Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea; VI. Thou that seest Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind; Thou majestic in thy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind; VII. Light among the vanish'd ages; star that gildest yet this phantom shore; Golden branch amid the shadows, kings and realms that pass to rise no more; VIII. Now thy Forum roars no longer, fallen every purple Caesar's dome -- Tho' thine ocean-roll of rhythm sound for ever of Imperial Rome -- IX. Now the Rome of slaves hath perished, and the Rome of freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sundered once from all the human race, X. I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17 by CAROLYN KIZER DIDO OF TUNISIA by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK by JOHN UPDIKE VIRGILS GNAT by EDMUND SPENSER AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1) by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 6 by JOSEPH HALL ON A LEAF FROM THE TOMB OF VIRGIL by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS SONNET: 9. DANTE AND VIRGIL by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL EPITAPH ON VIRGIL AND TIBULLUS by DOMITIUS MARSUS A CHARACTER by ALFRED TENNYSON |
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