Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BEELAH VIADUCT, by JOHN CLOSE First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology | ||||||||
O WONDROUS age! a wondrous age we live in, When Stainmore echoes with the awful din; What novel sounds the eighty men are giving, While fixing firm the iron pillars in ... All hail to Steam! all hail to men of Brain, Who sweep all obstacles before them, Cut down the hills, and through the mountains bore, And make admiring crowds adore them. ... "The cloud-cap't Towers, the solemn Temples," (As Shakespeare tells us in his verse sublime) Our Bridge at last shall crumblepass away When there shall also be and end of Time. Nay, "the great Globe itself," he plainly says, Shall disappear, and then be seen no more; We don't believe this creedour world will still Move round the sun as she hath done before. But when "The Archangel's trump shall sound" (As good John Wesley piously sings), May we among the heavenly host be found, When we have bid farewell to earthly things. | 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 VISION OF THE GODS: HALOES, NOT HATS by JOHN CLOSE IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF MR. YARKER: MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT by JOHN CLOSE |
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