Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PROPHECY OF DANTE: DEDICATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! If for the cold and cloudy clime Last Line: Ah! To what effort would it not persuade? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Italy; Italians | ||||||||
''T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.' CAMPBELL. LADY! if for the cold and cloudy clime Where I was born, but where I would not die, Of the great Poet-Sire of Italy I dare to build the imitative rhyme, Harsh Runic copy of the South's sublime, THOU art the cause; and howsoever I Fall short of his immortal harmony, Thy gentle heart will pardon me the crime. Thou, in the pride of Beauty and of Youth, Spakest; and for thee to speak and be obey'd Are one; but only in the sunny South Such sounds are utter'd, and such charms display'd, So sweet a language from so fair a mouth -- Ah! to what effort would it not persuade? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL by RICHARD HOWARD TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES by JAN HELLER LEVI JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW by LISEL MUELLER HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED by BASIL BUNTING FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1 by JOHN CIARDI ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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