Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN AT THE WOOD-SALE OF MESSRS BLANK & CO. ..., by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Shall not the phantom-axe, with viewless strokes Last Line: To tune his pipe across the nose of pan! Subject(s): Lumber And Lumbering | ||||||||
Shall not the phantom-axe, with viewless strokes, The quiet purlieus of your traffic vex? And the grim voice of all these aged oaks Go storming o'er your ledgers, to perplex Your clerks with sylvan horror? This fair haunt Of light and shadow, and divine repose, Low-fallen at last beneath your ruthless blows, Waits its last shame, the hammer. Do not vaunt The pelf your ravage brings you; for the ban Of all the woods is on you! you have spared No shelter for the dreams of god or man. Who stirred the wood-god's bile, what risks he ran Of old! ay, even the heedless swain, who dared To tune his pipe across the nose of Pan! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WOODMAN AND ECHO by GEORGE MEREDITH THE AXE FORBIDDEN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER THE LUMBERMEN by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LUMBERYARD by RUTH HERSCHBERGER WHEN THE DRIVE GOES DOWN by DOUGLAS MALLOCH CUTTING FIREWOOD IN AUTUMN by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON FINAL YEAR by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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