Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET'S PORTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is a mine - a treasury - a dower Last Line: But live and bloom, and be a joy for ever. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
THAT is a mine -- a treasury -- a dower -- A magic talisman of mighty power? A poet's wide possession of the earth. He has th' enjoyment of a flower's birth Before its budding -- ere the first red streaks, And Winter cannot rob him of their cheeks. Look -- if his dawn be not as other men's! Twenty bright flushes -- ere another kens The first of sunlight is abroad -- he sees Its golden 'lection of the topmost trees, And opes the splendid fissures of the morn. When do his fruits delay, when doth his corn Linger for harvesting? Before the leaf Is commonly abroad, in his pil'd sheaf The flagging poppies lose their ancient flame. No sweet there is, no pleasure I can name, But he will sip it first -- before the lees. 'Tis his to taste rich honey, -- ere the bees Are busy with the brooms. He may forestall June's rosy advent for his coronal; Before th' expectant buds upon the bough, Twining his thoughts to bloom upon his brow. Oh! blest to see the flower in its seed, Before its leafy presence; for indeed Leaves are but wings on which the summer flies And each thing perishable fades and dies, Escap'd in thought; but his rich thinkings be Like overflows of immortality: So that what there is steep'd shall perish never, But live and bloom, and be a joy for ever. | 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 |
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