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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TASSO TO LEONORA: 2, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poet's Biography
First Line: No, there is none in all the earth save thee
Last Line: That shatters and consumes and re-creates this frame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)
First Line: No, there is none in all the earth save thee
Last Line: That shatters and consumes and re-creates this frame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)
No, there is none in all the earth save thee,
And never was, not through the length of time.
One is the sea whose everlasting chime
Cradles the world, however variously
Named on its sundered shores, and thou, my sea,
Streamest through every spiritual clime;
The kings of thought, the laurelled lords of rhyme,
Are names of thine or silent shades to me.
Thou to this heart canst never more be mute,
Though of that dumb fraternity of Death,
While there is sweetness in the viol and lute
And power in speech of man, and while with breath
Drawn from the world's worn air I fan the flame
That shatters and consumes and re-creates this frame.
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