Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON MR. FREDERICK PORTER'S ROOM OF PICTURES, 1930, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's your radiant painter, he Last Line: Like these, and life's a pictured room. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Paintings & Painters | ||||||||
THE Sun's your radiant painter, he With sudden flush and verdancy Will often at one stroke transform Grey deathliness into a warm Interior; then the void is filled, The ghosts are driven, the goblin killed, And in a picture-sphere we pass Like pictures over mirrored grass; The spirit in this sea of hues Finds the refraction that renews, Is given a sign, is given an eye And swift possesses earth and sky. Here of the sunbeam's fruitful art I find a human counterpart, And from the gleaming evidence Feel beauty through a seventh sense; Where this discernment lights the track, The prison's rock-wall is a wrack Dispelled by Prospero's wind or wand, And happy islands sing beyond; Let this kind energy but take A thing of disproportioned make, -- A house of childish non-design, -- That thing becomes a friend of mine; Upon the alien doors and walls This natural and rare glory falls, The local grows the transmarine, And much grey work blooms into green; Those flowers he chooses, though born fair, Have found the same enchanted air, And double-fragranced with his blessing Seem for some white saint's possessing, -- Yet not out of common range, The Sun's creation is not strange; Fortune haunts us, moments bloom Like these, and Life's a pictured room. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1801: AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE ENVOY TO CONSTANTINOPLE by RICHARD HOWARD VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889 by RICHARD HOWARD THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT IN CERTAIN OLD PAINTINGS by DONALD JUSTICE DUTCH INTERIORS by JANE KENYON INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3 by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE CHINA PAINTERS by TED KOOSER ELEGY FOR SOL LEWITT by ANN LAUTERBACH ON THE SEPARATION OF ADAM AND EVE by TIMOTHY LIU ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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