Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HYMN: CELEBRATION LAYING CORNER-STONE HARVARD MEMORIAL HALL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with the anguish of hearts that are breaking Last Line: Crowned with the dome that is over us all! Subject(s): Harvard University | ||||||||
NOT with the anguish of hearts that are breaking Come we as mourners to weep for our dead; Grief in our breasts has grown weary of aching, Green is the turf where our tears we have shed. While o'er their marbles the mosses are creeping, Stealing each name and its legend away, Give their proud story to Memory's keeping, Shrined in the temple we hallow to-day. Hushed are their battle-fields, ended their marches, Deaf are their ears to the drum-beat of morn, -- Rise from the sod, ye fair columns and arches! Tell their bright deeds to the ages unborn! Emblem and legend may fade from the portal, Keystone may crumble and pillar may fall; They were the builders whose work is immortal, Crowned with the dome that is over us all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAIR HARVARD by GEORGE SANTAYANA APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973 by JOHN UPDIKE HUMANITIES COURSE by JOHN UPDIKE WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM by JOHN UPDIKE TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 2. HARVARD '61: BATTLE FATIGUE by ROBERT PENN WARREN W. E. B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD by JAY WRIGHT COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK by JOHN UPDIKE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND by PHILLIS WHEATLEY A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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