Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOURN NOT FOR VENICE - LET HER REST, by THOMAS MOORE Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Travel | ||||||||
MOURN not for VENICE - let her rest In ruin, ' mong those States unblest, Beneath whose gilded hoofs of pride, Where'er they trampled, Freedom died . No -let us keep our tears for them, Where'er they pine, whose fall hath been Not from a blood - stained diadem, Like that which deckt this ocean queen, But from high daring in the cause Of human Rights-the only good And blessed strife , in which man draws His mighty sword on land or flood. Mourn not for VENICE; tho' her fall Be awful , as if Ocean's wave Swept o'er her, she deserves it all , And Justice triumphs o'er her grave. Thus perish every King and State That run the guilty race she ran , Strong but in ill and only great By outrage against God and man! True, her high spirit is at rest, And all those days of glory gone, When the world's waters, east and west, Beneath her white-winged commerce shone; When with her countless barks she went To meet the Orient Empire's might, ' And her Giustinianis sent Their hundred heroes to that fight . Vanisht are all her pomps, ' tis true, But mourn them not- for vanisht too (Thanks to that Power, who, scon or late , Hurls to the dust the guilty Great. ) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES WHERE THE TRACK VANISHES by GALWAY KINNELL A CANADIAN BOAT SONG; WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE by THOMAS MOORE |
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