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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN POET'S CORNER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When first the clamorous poets sang, and when Last Line: Of various tone, farewell! Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron | |||
WHEN first the clamorous poets sang, and when Acclaim'd by hosts of men, While music filled with silver light and shade Cloister and colonnade, With pomp of catafalque and laureate crown We laid him softly down To sleep until the world's last morning come, My stricken lips were dumb. But now that all is silent round his grave, Dim, from the glimmering nave, And in the shadow thrown by plinth and bust His garlands gather dust, Here, in the hush, I feel the chords unstrung Tighten in throat and tongue; At last, at last, the voice comes back, -- I raise A whisper in his praise. Thanks for the music that through thirty years Quicken'd my pulse to tears, The eye that colour'd Nature, the wise hand, The brain that nobly plann'd; Thanks for the anguish of the perfect phrase, Tingling the blood ablaze! Organ of God, with multitudinous swell Of various tone, farewell! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CHARGE OF THE BREAD BRIGADE by EZRA POUND TO ALFRED TENNYSON by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR WAPENTAKE; TO ALFRED TENNYSON by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN; PARODY OF TENNYSON'S 'LOCKSLEY HALL' by THEODORE MARTIN TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY FACADE: 27. WHEN SIR BEELZEBUB by EDITH SITWELL THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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