Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NATURE AND LANGUAGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, when some happy thought for song is found Last Line: While all our sweetest thoughts go safe to heaven. Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary | ||||||||
Oft, when some happy thought for song is found, It flits about us like a living thing, Returning, like the swallow, from each round, With some new charm of light on breast and wing. On such fair themes we lavish all our skill, Though all our skill can scarce their grace record; A residue of beauty lingers still, Beyond our fondest art, or latest word. How seldom does our choicest phrase fulfil Our heart's desire, or reach our depths of will! But, when we quit this life of day and hour, With souls enfranchised, and with sins forgiven, Our eloquence will be a readier power, While all our sweetest thoughts go safe to heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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