Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERSONAL SONNET: TO ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not since proud marlowe poured his potent song Last Line: All hearts are thrilled; all nations hushed to hear! Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) | ||||||||
NOT since proud Marlowe poured his potent song Through fadeless meadows to a marvellous main, Has England hearkened to so sweet a strain -- So sweet as thine, and ah! so subtly strong! Whether sad love it mourns, or wreaks on wrong The rhythmic rage of measureless disdain, Dallies with joy, or swells in fiery pain, What ravished souls the entrancing notes prolong! At thy charmed breath pale histories blush once more: See! Rosamond's smile! drink love from Mary's eyes; Quail at the foul Medici's midnight frown. Or hark to black Bartholomew's anguished cries! Blent with far horns of Calydon widely blown O'er the grim death-growl of the ensanguined boar! But crowned by hope, winged with august desire, Thy muse soars loftiest, when her breath is drawn In stainless liberty's ethereal dawn, And "songs of sunrise" her warm lips suspire: High in auroral radiance, high and higher, She buoys thee up, till, earth's gross vapors gone, Thy proud, flame-girdled spirit gazes on The unveiled fount of freedom's crystal fire. When thou hast drained deep draughts divinely nurst 'Mid lucid lustres, and hale haunts of morn, On lightning thoughts thy choral thunders burst Of rapturous song! Apollo's self, newborn, Might thus have sung from his Olympian sphere; All hearts are thrilled; all nations hushed to hear! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE by SARA TEASDALE HOME, SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS: 2. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH A FIRST EDITION OF ATALANTA IN CALYDON by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.) by PHILIP GUEDALLA A SINGER ASLEEP by THOMAS HARDY OCTOPUS by ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON FELO DE SE; WITH APOLOGIES TO SWINBURNE by AMY LEVY THE POETS AT TEA: 3. SWINBURNE, WHO LET IT GET COLD by BARRY PAIN A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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