SINGERS there are of courtly themes -- @3Drapers@1 in verse -- who would dress their rhymes In robes of ermine; and singers of dreams Of gods high-throned in the classic times; Singers of nymphs, in their dim retreats, Satyrs, with scepter and diadem; But the singer who sings as a man's heart beats Well may blush for the rest of them. I like the thrill of such poems as these, -- All spirit and fervor of splendid fact -- Pulse, and muscle, and arteries Of living, heroic thought and act! -- Where every line is a vein of red And rapturous blood all unconfined As it leaps from a heart that has joyed and bled With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUMPTY DUMPTY RECITATION [OR, SONG] by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1878 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI PICTURE-SHOW by SIEGFRIED SASSOON GREAT BELL ROLAND; SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT'S CALL VOLUNTEERS by THEODORE TILTON THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C. by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |