Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROSE WINDOW, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The preacher took from solomon's song Last Line: While danced the motes in dusty pew. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses | ||||||||
The preacher took from Solomon's Song Four words for text with mystery rife -- The Rose of Sharon, -- figuring Him The Resurrection and the Life; And, pointing many an urn in view, How honied a homily he drew. There in the slumberous afternoon, Through minster gray, in lullaby rolled The brimmed metheglin charged with swoon. Drowsy, my decorous hands I fold Till sleep overtakes with dream for boon. I saw an Angel with a Rose Come out of Morning's garden-gate, And lamp-like hold the Rose aloft, He entered a sepulchral Strait. I followed. And I saw the Rose Shed dappled down upon the dead; The shrouds and mort-cloths all were lit To plaids and chequered tartans red. I woke, the great Rose-Window high, A mullioned wheel in gable set, Suffused with rich and soft in dye Where Iris and Aurora met; Aslant in sheaf of rays it threw From all its foliate round of panes Transfiguring light on dingy stains, While danced the motes in dusty pew. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHISPER OF THE ROSE by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG THE WISDOM OF THE ROSE by ELSA BARKER LOVE PLANTED A ROSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES ROSES; A VILANELLE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE PAINTER ON SILK by AMY LOWELL VARIATIONS: 17 by CONRAD AIKEN WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE by HAYDEN CARRUTH FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER) by HERMAN MELVILLE THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD) by HERMAN MELVILLE A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA by HERMAN MELVILLE |
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