Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MINSTREL BARD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where awful summits rise around Last Line: In the soft dreams of poesy. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Minstrels; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
WHERE awful summits rise around, With wild and straggling flowerets crowned; 'Tis there the poet loves to sigh, And touch the harp of melody: And wake the measure of delight, Or melt in fairy visions bright: And sometimes will his soul aspire, And feel almost etherial fire. Ah! then the fond enthusiast dreams, (Enraptured with celestial themes,) That happy spirits round him play, And animate the magic lay: Their floating forms his fancy sees, And hears their music in the breeze. Then, while the airy numbers die, He wakes his sweetest harmony; To imitate the heavenly strain, Which memory fondly calls again. To Fancy then he pours his song, To her his wildest notes belong. Oh! spirit of the lyre divine, I deck with flowers thy sacred shrine; Thus let me ever melt with thee, In the soft dreams of poesy. | 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 DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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