Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE MEN OF TRURO: 2. A.B.D. CANON RESIDENTIARY AND PRECENTOR TRURO, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many had builded, and, the building done Last Line: His ever-living rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Clergy; Temples; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mosques | ||||||||
MANY had builded, and, the building done, Through our adornèd gates with din Came Prince and Priest, with pipe and clarion Leading the right God in. Yet, had the perfect temple quickened then And whispered us between our song, Give God the praise. To whom of living men Shall next our thanks belong?' Then had the few, the very few, that wist His Atlantëan labour, swerved Their eyes to seek, and in the triumph missed, The man that most deserved. He only of us was incorporate In all that fabric; stone by stone Had built his life in her, had made his fate And her perfection one; Given all he had; and nowwhen all was given Far spent, within a private shade, Heard the loud organ pealing praise to Heaven, And learned why man is made. To break his strength, yet always to be brave; To preach, and act, the Crucified... Sweep by, O Prince and Prelate, up the nave, And fill it with your pride! Better than ye what made th' old temples great, Because he loved, he understood; Indignant that his darling, less in state, Should lack a martyr's blood. She hath it now. O mason, strip away Her scaffolding, the flower disclose! Lay by the tools with his o'er-wearied clay But She shall bloom unto its Judgement Day, His ever-living Rose! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAYADERE by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS AT DENDERA by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON MAYAN TEMPLE by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL THE EARTHLY HOUSE by PHOEBE CARY THE DESERTED SHRINE by GLADYS CROMWELL THE ARK OF THE COVENANT by NINA DAVIS THE MENORAH by MIRIAM DEL BANCO SAGE COUNSEL by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH |
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