Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME



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BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by                     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.





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