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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LORDS OF LIFE: 2. JUPITER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE First Line: How calmly, and with what a shield of light Last Line: Rules, loving all the dwellers of the earth. | |||
HOW calmly, and with what a shield of light, The powerful sovereign of the earth and air Is winding up the blue Olympian stair Into the realm of the imperial night! No longer hurling from his dizzy height The twisted bolt that sets the world aglare, Nor fiercely driving the dark clouds that bear The thunder-stone to startle and affright,— But shining as a star adown whose ray Glides what is salutary, what is worth More than aught else upon the natal day Of beings destined to a mortal birth: For Jove is kind, and with benignant sway Rules, loving all the dwellers of the earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET'S CENTENARY by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A SONG OF BATTLE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A VOICE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AD MUSAM by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE ALL SOUL'S EVE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN APOSTOLIC MAN by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN EAGLE-SPIRIT by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN OLD SAW by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE CONSCIENCE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE COOPERATION by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE |
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