Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poet's Biography First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean | ||||||||
As from the nebulous elemental sea, Wand-smitten by the Eternal Mind, Earth rose, A foam-born Venus on whose breast repose Rose, myrtle and amaranth, -- her canopy Azure, her footfalls timed with Bacchic glee, And thundering rhythm of Birth and Death, and throes Of Races fluctuant, and the impassioned woes Of Orpheus wailing his Eurydice; So at Beethoven's beck there grew above The waves of sound a wonder-world, where dwell Old gods and nymphs in many a mazy grove; And in their midst -- his deepest song -- a well Where Psyche washes whiter than a dove Ere lapped in slumber with immortal Love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS A BALLAD OF SIR KAY by NEWMAN HOWARD |
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