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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CROWN JEWELS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: Eye of a god was this blazing stone Last Line: In the fairy plots of a palace garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Crowns; Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd | |||
EYE of a god was this blazing stone, Beyond the snows of the Himalaya; These dazzling stars might have lit the zone Of the Queen of Jove or the Grace, Aglaia; And the rubies are such as the Burman king Sends his elephants white to bring, With a troop of soldiers and high grandees Greeting the finder, on bended knees. Here's an emerald rare as the rose of pride Cortez gave his Castilian bride, And lustrous-green as the Indian gem Charlemagne wore in his diadem; And pearls hard-won by the Ceylonese From the silent depths of the tropic seas, While the conjurer muttered his spells ashore Till the diver's toils for the day were o'er; And crystals, amber, and amethyst, That only the Oural caves could harden, -- Bright as blossoms the sun has kissed In the fairy plots of a palace garden. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD by JOHN UPDIKE REQUIEM: PROLOGUE by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO ST. ISAAC'S CHURCH, PETROGRAD by CLAUDE MCKAY SAINT PETERSBURG by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR THE FEAST OF PETER THE GREAT by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN |
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