Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHAKESPEARE, by COLIN RAE-BROWN First Line: What glorious victories are here enshrined Last Line: All coming time shall fail thy like to find! Subject(s): Admiration; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | ||||||||
WHAT glorious victories are here enshrined In deathless trophies of immortal Mind! What proud exemption from the common doom Are lives that need no costly, storied tomb! How rich the spoils from Death's cold clutches wrung -- How vast the fame that lives on ev'ry tongue! Such fame is thine, thou first of human kind By whom the soul's deep myst'ries were defined: Thou held'st the mirror up to nature's view And proved the false by setting forth the true: Dissecting motives of the hidden will With touch precise and anatomic skill, Unlocking ev'ry chamber of the heart That laughs -- or weeps, at bidding of thy Art. Sun of thy system! whose effulgent rays Dispel the filmy clouds of mental haze, Clearing the lab'rinths of Life's devious way Till darkness seems transparent as the day -- Still unapproach'd throughout the World of Mind, All Coming Time shall fail thy like to find! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART by LOUISE BOGAN THE SAVING WAY by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT by ALICE FULTON YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY by JAMES GALVIN SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER READING SHAKESPERE by EDWIN MARKHAM BONNIE INVERMAY by COLIN RAE-BROWN |
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