Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSPIRATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: No hint upon the hilltop shows Last Line: To strew the surf-forsaken strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
No hint upon the hilltop shows The flush of climbing feet; But where the heaven above it glows Triumphal glances meet, Anon to vanish in the plain And leave the hill its heaven again. No sign celestial hath the soul Its coming dreams to tell, Unheralded the tidal roll Returns -- a rhythmic swell, Anon with silence, as with sand, To strew the surf-forsaken strand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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