Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poet's Biography First Line: The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness Last Line: Accept it, human, and return, divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Apollo; Architecture & Architects; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors | ||||||||
The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness, The inner world is tinged with the solar day; The weather stamps its living, clear impress On the soul and the reed that are its fragile clay. And the beauty of the body is the union Of its natal earth and the heavens that direct Their light upon it, the weft of their communion, A happy sketch today must still perfect. O sculptor, mightier than nature you can limn; You pour in bronze her loftiest paradigm In the ideal mould that she has never filled; You see the humble form already shrine The clear contours the archetype has willed, Accept it, human, and return, divine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN by NORMAN DUBIE THE SAINTS OF NEGATIVITY; FOR ERMA POUNDS by NORMAN DUBIE A ROGERS GROUP by ROBERT FROST ON A HORSE CARVED IN WOOD by DONALD HALL JADE MOTHER GODDESS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN GALLERIES by RANDALL JARRELL ALONE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME |
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