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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BARBAROSSA, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a mountain's caverned hall Last Line: Seeing him rise! Subject(s): Untersberg, Austria | |||
DEEP in a mountain's caverned hall, It is whispered low, Waits in a weird, sepulchral glow An armed phantom, crowned and tall, Whose hoary beard of centuries Grows on the gray stone where it lies; While jewelled knights with glittering eyes Glower round In trance profound. Anon, at age-long intervals, The ghostly king Sends a raven of sable wing From his stupendous prison-walls, To learn how near the fated hour When he may reassume the power, -- Behold! no raven comes again. Behold! the raven devours the slain! Vaults asunder Burst in thunder! Lo! in the hall of mirrors yonder, In a palace consecrate to all Age-long glories of the Gaul, A German wears imperial Purple: Barbarossa lives! The ghost of a dark age revives, And the heart of every freeman dies, Seeing him rise! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DYING by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL I AM WEEPING, MOTHER by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL LAMENT FOR A LITTLE CHILD by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE MERRY-GO-ROUND by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE SECRET OF THE NIGHTINGALE by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE SWIMMER (1) by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE SWIMMER (2) by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE TOY CROSS by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL THE WATER-NYMPH AND THE BOY by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL TO MY MOTHER by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL |
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