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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War | |||
TOWERS — eternal towers against the sky: Dawn-touched, noon-flamed, night-mantled and moon-flecked! The tenuous dreams of man, the architect, Imagining in stone what may not die Though man, the anarchist, dream enginery For its destruction: towers of intellect, Towers of aspiration — torn and wrecked, Profaned by robber sacrilege: ah, why? Reason shall ask, and answer shall be given; Justice shall ask, and deal to those insane Their dark asylums, but to those — the vain Of lustful power, how shall their souls be shriven? — They shall be raised on infamy's renown And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A CHILD AT THE WICKET by PERCY MACKAYE |
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