Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: POETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some thunder on the heights of song Last Line: O'er whose vast realm the master minstrels reign! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
SOME thunder on the heights of song, their race Godlike in power, while others at their feet Are breathing measures scarce less strong and sweet Than those which peal from out that loftiest place; Meantime, just midway on the mount, his face Fairer than April heavens, when storms retreat, And on their edges rain and sunshine meet, Pipes the soft lyrist lays of tender grace; But where the slopes of bright Parnassus sweep Near to the common ground, a various throng Chant lowlier measures, -- yet each tuneful strain (The silvery minor of earth's perfect song) Blends with that music of the topmost steep, O'er whose vast realm the master minstrels reign! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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