Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet hath the child's sight in his breast Last Line: And praise his world for ever, as thou bidst. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
THE poet hath the child's sight in his breast And sees all new. What oftenest he has viewed He views with the first glory. Fair and good Pall never on him, at the fairest, best, But stand before him holy and undressed In week-day false conventions, such as would Drag other men down from the altitude Of primal types, too early dispossessed. Why, God would tire of all his heavens, as soon As thou, O godlike, childlike poet, didst Of daily and nightly sights of sun and moon! And therefore hath He set thee in the midst Where men may hear thy wonder's ceaseless tune And praise his world for ever, as thou bidst. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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