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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOWER, by AGNES LEE Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the tower is standing Last Line: Imposed against the sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Size & Shape; Height | |||
Now that the tower is standing, Stone upon stone in flower, What of its soul -- the master, The maker of the tower? Walking in mist of evening Humbly amid the crowd Beside the wide way's traffic, Thoughtful perhaps, and bowed, And pondering some failure That shook his earlier days, What exaltation waits him, When upward he shall gaze And see in sudden outline, Mysterious and high, Beauty, his own creation, Imposed against the sky! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN by ROBERT BURNS ON SIM AND SIMON by CHARLES COTTON GIANTS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES UPON T.R., A VERY LITTLE MAN, BUT EXCELLENTLY LEARNED by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) LITTLE AND LOUD by ROBERT HERRICK SHORT AND LONG BOTH LIKES by ROBERT HERRICK BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG by WYATT PRUNTY |
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