Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O.M.B. (DIED NOVEMBER, 1874), by FORD MADOX BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: As one who strives from some fast steamer's Last Line: Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! Subject(s): Brown, Oliver Madox (1855-1874) | ||||||||
As one who strives from some fast steamer's side To note amid the backward-spinning foam And keep in view some separate wreath therefrom, That cheats him even the while he views it glide (Merging in other foam-tracks stretching wide), So strive we to keep clear that day our home First saw you riven -- a memory thence to roam, A shatter'd blossom on the eternal tide! O broken promises that show'd so fair! O morning sun of wit set in despair! O brows made smooth as with the Muse's chrism! O Oliver! ourselves Death's cataclysm Must soon o'ertake -- but not in vain -- not where Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND' by FORD MADOX BROWN SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT [1583] by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE DAUGHTERS OF ATLAS by AESCHYLUS THE ADIEU, TO A FRIEND LEAVING SUFFOLK by BERNARD BARTON GOODFRYDAY (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES) by JOSEPH BEAUMONT PSALM 73: INTRODUCTORY LINES by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE LAST OF THE NEW YEAR'S CALLERS by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER IN BLOOMING ORCHARDS by JOHN BURROUGHS OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 1 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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