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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope
Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound!
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy
First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope
Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound!
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy
Nor - could I bring within my visual scope
The great localities old stories boast -
Would I forget thee, Troas! whose first hope
Of travel pointed to thy lonely coast;
How would my quicken'd fancy reproduce
Th' incessant brazen flash of Homer's war,
And heroes moving quick their ground to choose,
With spear-tops burning like the autumn star,
Along that sullen sea-board! till, at length,
Mine ear should thrill, my startled pulses bound,
When from the trench those two grand voices rose -
And each involved in th' other, swept their foes
Before them, like a storm - the wrath and strength
Of God and man conspiring to the sound!
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