Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAD PLAYER, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poet's Biography First Line: Sure and exact - the master's quiet touch Last Line: The memory of him. | ||||||||
SURE and exact, -- the master's quiet touch, Thus perfect, was his art; Ambitious, generous, sad, and loving much, Was his pain-haunted heart. To him, the blissful burthen of her love Did stern-browed Fortune give; In hell, in heaven, beneath life and above, Such souls as his must live. Who wears Fame's Tyrian garb, as well must wear The heavy robe of Grief; Who bears aloft the palm, must also bear Hid woundings past belief. Both he did wear and bear, as well as most Of Earth's soon-counted few That stand distinguished from the unknown host By having work to do. Souls seek their doom. A costly-freighted bark That sails a perilous sea, Rounds every bar, and goes down, in the dark At port, -- e'en such was he. A classic shade, -- he walks the unknown lands Death-silent and death-dim; But, like a noble Phidian marble, stands The memory of him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SUNRISE OF THE POOR by ROBERT BURNS WILSON TO A CROW by ROBERT BURNS WILSON THE WHITE LIGHTS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE LAST POST by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE by THOMAS GRAY SUMMER MATURES by HELENE JOHNSON FIREFLY; A SONG by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS OLD KING COLE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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