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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAME, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poet's Biography First Line: The names that slow oblivion have defied Last Line: To life and joy and love unperishing. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Fame; Reputation | |||
THE names that slow oblivion have defied, And passionate ambition's wildest shocks Stand in lone grandeur, like eternal rocks, To cast broad shadows o'er the silent tide Of time's unebbing flood, whose waters glide To ponderous darkness from their secret spring And, bearing on each transitory thing, Leave those old monuments in loneliest pride. There stand they -- fortresses uprear'd by man, Whose earthly frame is mortal; symbols high Of power unchanging, -- thought that cannot die; Proofs that our nature is not of a span, But of immortal essence, and allied To life and joy and love unperishing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON A MAN TO A WOMAN by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS DEATH AND FAME by ALLEN GINSBERG EARTH'S IMMORTALITIES: FAME by ROBERT BROWNING STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON PROVIDE, PROVIDE by ROBERT FROST A FRIEND by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD LINES WRITTEN AT NEEDLES HOTEL, ALUM BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT, AFTER A WEEK by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD |
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