Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LECONTE DE LISLE; JULY 17, 1894, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: His verse was carved in ivory forms, undying Last Line: His bronze and marble leap to life and song. Subject(s): Leconte De Lisle (1819-1894) | ||||||||
HIS verse was carved in ivory forms, undying As those that deck the marble Phidian frieze. Over his plaintive hearse to-night is flying A phantom genius from the Cyclades. It hovers till our idle rites be over; And then will bear him in its arms away To islands cinctured by the sun, their lover, And spicy woodlands thrilled with fiery day. There his dark hours of toil shall drop, forgotten; There all he loved, simple and calm and grand -- All the white creatures by his Muse begotten -- Shall cluster round him in a stately band. Then shall he smile, appeased by sovereign beauty, Contented that he strove and waited long, Since in those worlds where loveliness is duty His bronze and marble leap to life and song. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IMPRESSION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE LYING IN THE GRASS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE ON A LUTE FOUND IN A SARCOPHAGUS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE REVELATION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE SUPPLIANT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE VANISHING BOAT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE WITH A COPY OF HERRICK by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE 1870-71 by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A DREAM OF NOVEMBER; TO ARTHUR SYMONS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE |
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