Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROCK; OCTOBER 13, 1859, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poet's Biography First Line: One voice, one people, one in heart Last Line: The typhons of the time. Subject(s): Brock, Isaac (1769-1812) | ||||||||
One voice, one people, one in heart And soul, and feeling, and desire! Re-light the smouldering martial fire, Sound the mute trumpet, strike the lyre, The hero deed can not expire, The dead still play their part. Raise high the monumental stone! A nation's fealty is theirs, And we are the rejoicing heirs, The honored sons of sires whose cares We take upon us unawares, As freely as our own. We boast not of the victory, But render homage, deep and just, To histo theirimmortal dust, Who proved so worthy of their trust No lofty pile nor sculptured bust Can herald their degree. No tongue need blazon forth their fame The cheers that stir the sacred hill Are but mere promptings of the will That conquered then, that conquers still; And generations yet shall thrill At Brock's remembered name. Some souls are the Hesperides Heaven sends to guard the golden age, Illuming the historic page With records of their pilgrimage; True Martyr, Hero, Poet, Sage: And he was one of these. Each in his lofty sphere sublime Sits crowned above the common throng, Wrestling with some Pythonic wrong, In prayer, in thunder, thought, or song; Briareus-limbed, they sweep along, The Typhons of the time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN AUTUMN CHANGE, FR. THE HAPPY HARVESTERS by CHARLES SANGSTER LOST AND FOUND by CHARLES SANGSTER MARILINE, SELECTION by CHARLES SANGSTER THE SOLDIERS OF THE PLOUGH, FR. THE HAPPY HARVESTERS by CHARLES SANGSTER THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, FR. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY by CHARLES SANGSTER LOVE IN TWILIGHT by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET I SING OF LOVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE WALKING MAN OF RODIN by CARL SANDBURG |
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