Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AUSTIN DOBSON, by ARTHUR KETCHUM First Line: Not unto you the gods gave wings Last Line: As spring has still its daffodils. | ||||||||
NOT unto you the gods gave wings, To scale the far Olympic height, But made content with simpler things, Your Pegasus takes lower flight. Yet while into oblivion float Those vaster songs, sublimely grand -- All men are listening to your note, And as they listen, understand. Sing on, then, while the heart of youth In glad accordance answ'ring thrills, And life and love have still their truth, As spring has still its daffodils. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GEORGE DU MAURIER by ARTHUR KETCHUM MY LADY GOES TO THE PLAY by ARTHUR KETCHUM ON THE SALE OF MY FARM by ROBERT FROST THE VILLAIN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES SONG, FR. THE TWO GENTELEM OF VERONA by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A SOUTHERN NIGHT by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE REPLY OF Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS TO A ROMAN 'ROUND-ROBIN' by ALFRED AUSTIN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. .. BILL ABOLISHING SLAVE TRADE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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