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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIGHTNING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere we be stricken blind to certain dreams Last Line: Through following thunder and the driving rain! Subject(s): Lightning; Lightning Rods | |||
Ere we be stricken blind to certain dreams, Thank God there is a wild particular light Flashes upon us from the relenting height Of honest heaven! At such an hour, it seems, We gazed on patterned fields and shrunken streams From our warm mountain, with the infinite Royal about us, as the fabled, bright Gods of Olympus scanned their Attic demes. And then -- cloud-shadows chilled us, and the sun Was gone. Yet at the moment of my pain A vivid sheet of lightning showed you clear Against the eclipse. Lost? Aye, but rapt from one Who laughed for immortal rapture of you, dear, Through following thunder and the driving rain! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOLT FROM THE BLUE by GREGORY ORR THE YOUNG MYSTIC by LOUIS UNTERMEYER POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN by ELEANOR WILNER THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER by MARVIN BELL EPITAPH by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES SHEET LIGHTNING by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE OMINOUS TIMES by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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