Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAME, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography First Line: Great thoughts had swelled my breast since morning light Last Line: The light of souls who died without a name. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation | ||||||||
GREAT thoughts had swelled my breast since morning light, -- Of one who, vibrating the ether, spake; And one whose ray abolished the opaque; Sailors, who drove from either Pole the night; Aerial Chavez o'er the Alpine height Icarian borne, the eagle in his wake; The twain whose love unveiled the radium flake; And him who dragged the pestilence to light. And when the long day drew to evening's close, And on heaven's face the eternal beauty came, So in my memory gloriously arose The starry universe of human fame; And through the midst thereof uncounted glows The light of souls who died without a name. | 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 AT GIBRALTAR by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |
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