Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's coming through this street Last Line: Tis bacchus' son who walks below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens | ||||||||
Gentleman He's coming through this street, Orazio, wrapt, like Bacchus, in the hide Of a specked panther, with his dancing nymphs, And torches bright and many, as his slaves Had gathered up the fragments of the sun That fell just now. Hark! here his music comes. Enter ORAZIO, between ARMIDA and ROSAURA, attended. Orazio Thrice to the moon, and thrice unto the sun, And thrice unto the lesser stars of night, From tower and hill, by trump and cannon's voice, Have I proclaimed myself a deity's son: Not Alexander's father, Ammon old, But ivied Bacchus, do I call my sire. Hymn it once more. Song Strew not earth with empty stars, Strew it not with roses, Nor feathers from the crest of Mars, Nor summer's idle posies. 'Tis not the primrose-sandalled moon, Nor cold and silent morn, Nor he that climbs the dusty noon, Nor mower war with scythe that drops, Stuck with helmed and turbaned tops Of enemies new shorn. Ye cups, ye lyres, ye trumpets know, Pour your music, let it flow, 'Tis Bacchus' son who walks below. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA by EMMA LAZARUS TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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