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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENTS FROM A METRICAL JOURNAL: ST. GOAR, by JOHN RUSKIN Poet's Biography First Line: Past a rock with frowning front Last Line: Their tresses in his placid wave. Subject(s): St. Goar, Germany | |||
Past a rock with frowning front, Wrinkled by the tempest's brunt, By the Rhine we downward bore Upon the village of St. Goar. Bosomed deep among the hills, Here old Rhine his current stills. Loitering the banks between, As if, enamored of the scene, He had forgot his onward way For a live-long summer day. Grim the crags through whose dark cleft, Behind, he hath a passage reft; While, gaunt as gorge of hunted boar, Dark yawns the foaming pass before, Where the tormented waters rage, Like demons in their Stygian cage, In giddy eddies whirling round With a sullen choking sound; Or flinging far the scattering spray, O'er the peaked rocks that bar his way. —No marvel that the spell-bound Rhine, Like giant overcome with wine, Should here relax his angry frown, And, soothed to slumber, lay him down Amid the vine-clad banks that lave, Their tresses in his placid wave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WALK IN CHAMOUNI by JOHN RUSKIN ARISTODEMUS AT PLATAEA by JOHN RUSKIN CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; NIGHT by JOHN RUSKIN FRAGMENTS FROM A METRICAL JOURNAL: ANDERNACHT by JOHN RUSKIN SALSETTE AND ELEPHANTA by JOHN RUSKIN SONG, FR. LEONI, A ROMANCE OF ITALY by JOHN RUSKIN |
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