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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT THE FIREMEN'S EXHIBITION, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB First Line: Night: and london's ancient hallows Last Line: Spreads the great tent-maker's round. Subject(s): Exhibitions; Writers, European; World's Fairs; Expositions | |||
Night: and London's ancient hallows Flaming like so many tallows, Smoking to the sky and writing Volumes of a dire inditing: "Fiend, not fire, hold in abhorrence, On my gridiron cry I Laurence." "Stephen, keep thy namesakes whole, man Brother Walbrook, brother Coleman." "Who would boast of beauty's pride Look on me, the blackened Bride." "Never earthly kingdom trust in, I enjoin you, I Augustine." "How precarious man's estate Know I Giles of Cripplegate." "Liberties how vain, and charters, Magnus I and other martyrs." Day: and on his wonted hill Stands the warder Martin still; Votaresses yet there be Margaret Pattens, Catherine Cree; Nor hath any bitter draught Borne down Andrew Undershaft. And though everywhere of twain One be left, the other ta'en, Pitched on his old camping-ground Spreads the great Tent-maker's round. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TREAD THE DARK: 51 by DAVID IGNATOW ODE SUNG AT THE OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION by ALFRED TENNYSON INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1 by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE by MARY WESTON FORDHAM A WELCOME TO THE FAIR by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON WEBFOOT IN THE LEAD by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC) by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL AMONG THE LAKES by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS) by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |
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