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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW YORK, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With these heaven-assailing spires Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. | |||
WITH these heaven-assailing spires All that was in clay or stone Fabled of rich Babylon By these children is outdone Earth has spilt her fire in these To make them of her mightier kind. Has she that precious fire to give, The starry-pointing Magian mind, That soared from the Chaldean plains Through zones of mystic air, and found The Master of the Zodiac, The Will that makes the Wheel go round. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROLIC by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL IMMORTALITY by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL RECONCILIATION by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL SACRIFICE by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL THE GIFT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A CALL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A FAREWELL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A HOLY HILL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A LAST COUNSEL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A LEADER by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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