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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AESCHYLUS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poet's Biography First Line: A sea-cliff carved into a bas-relief! | |||
A sea-cliff carved into a bas-relief Dark thoughts and sad, conceiv'd by brooding Nature Brought forth in storm:-dread shapes of Titan stature, Emblems of Fate, and Change, Revenge, and Grief, And Death, and Life;-a caverned Hieroglyph Confronting still with thunder-blasted frieze All stress of years, and Minds, and wasting seas: The stranger nears it in his fragile skiff And hides his eyes. Few, few shall pass, great Bard, Thy dim sea-portals I Entering, fewer yet Shall pierce thy mystic meanings, deep and hard But these shall owe to thee an endless debt The Eleusinian caverns they shall tread That wind beneath man's heart; and wisdom learn with dread. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE DIRGE OF RORY O'MORE; 1642 by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE HUMAN LIFE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE SORROW by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THE SUN GOD by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE A CHARACTER by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE AN EPICUREAN'S EPITAPH by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE CARDINAL MANNING by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE COLERIDGE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE DIOCLESIAN AT SALONA by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE |
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