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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOMB OF EDGAR POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as eternity transforms him at last unto himself
Last Line: To the foul flights of straggling blasphemy in the future.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
First Line: Just as eternity transforms him at last unto himself
Last Line: To the foul flights of straggling blasphemy in the future.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Just as eternity transforms him at last unto Himself,
The Poet rouses with a naked sword
His age terrified at not having discerned
That death was triumphant in that strange voice!
They, like a Hydra's vile start on hearing the angel
Once give a purer meaning to the words of the tribe
Loudly proclaimed sorcery drunk
In the dishonest flow of some foul brew.
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief!
If our imagination does not carve a bas-relief
With which to adorn the shining tomb of Poe
Silent block fallen here below from some dim disaster
Let this granite at least forever be a boundary
To the foul flights of straggling Blasphemy in the future.
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