Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE AERONAUT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE First Line: Paean, sing paean! / for I have made me wings Last Line: "thy courier I!'?" Subject(s): Flight; Love; Religion; Flying; Theology | ||||||||
PÆAN, sing paæn! For I have made me wings; No more the empyrean Withstands my journeyings; The empyrean, Eternal, silent, vast! I enter it at last, And the god in me sings. Power, sing power! For I am greater grown; This is the mighty hour When all becomes mine own; The mighty hour Dreamed, laboured for, fulfilled, Won as my spirit willed, The firmament known. Yet, in the singing, Hearken a low, sweet cry: "Wouldst thou, O Man, be winging The stretches of the sky; Wouldst thou be winging Thine ever-upward way, Did not Love smile and say: 'Thy courier I!'?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE |
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