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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POWERFUL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When baffled days seem each to drag a chain Last Line: Shy mistletoe, plucked by valhalla's gate? Subject(s): Frost; Glass & Glassblowers; Snow; Glaziers | |||
When baffled days seem each to drag a chain, Dead hopes are laid in mortuary of Fate, And our small hearts lament the wide estate God gave them for vast dreams that bring no gain, Remains the soft, hushed power of snow and rain, Of little flowers, that sunder rocks too great For Thor to cleave. Mark how this frost of late With glazier's emeril works upon the pane! Know you the silent force of growing grain,— How the winged pine-seed drifts to recreate? With tedious hydraulics, seeming vain, The tiny ant might undermine a state. Or tell me, how was mighty Baldur slain, Shy mistletoe, plucked by Valhalla's gate? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD GLASS FACTORY by ISABEL FISKE CONANT ON SEEING SOME NAMES CUT ON A PANE OF GLASS by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON THE CHEVAL-GLASS by THOMAS HARDY THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A COLD TEMPERAMENT by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A PASSSGE TO ITALY by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A SONG OF DAWN AT DUSK by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A STREET MOTHER by WILLIAM ROSE BENET AFTER-SIGHT by WILLIAM ROSE BENET AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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