Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ANDREW CROSSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Altho' with earth and heaven you deal Last Line: Philosophers can envy too. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Poetry & Poets; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) | ||||||||
Altho' with Earth and Heaven you deal As equal, and without appeal, And bring beneath your ancient roof Records of all they do, and proof, No right have you, sequester'd Crosse, To make the Muses weep your loss. A poet were you long before Gems from the struggling air you tore, And bade the far-off flashes play About your woods, and light your way. With languor and disease opprest, And years, that crush the tuneful breast, Southey, the pure of soul is mute! Hoarse whistles Wordsworth's watery flute, Which mourn'd with loud indignant strains The famisht Black in Corsic chains: Nor longer do the girls for Moore Jilt Horace as they did before. He sits contented to have won The rose-wreath from Anacreon, And bears to see the orbs grow dim That shone with blandest light on him. Others there are whose future day No slender glories shall display; But you would think me worse than tame To find me stringing name on name, And I would rather call aloud On Andrew Crosse than stem the crowd. Now chiefly female voices rise (And sweet are they) to cheer our skies. Suppose you warm these chilly days With samples from your fervid lays. Come! courage! man! and don't pretend That every verse cuts off a friend, And that in simple truth you fain Would rather not give poets pain. The lame excuse will never do . . Philosophers can envy too. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE YOUTH OF NATURE: WORDSWORTH'S COUNTRY by MATTHEW ARNOLD RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCE by GEORGE BARKER ON A PORTRAIT OF WORDSWORTH BY B.R. HAYDON by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE LOST LEADER by ROBERT BROWNING DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION] by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ON WORDSWORTH by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE WHITE KNIGHT'S SONG by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON A FIESOLAN IDYL by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
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