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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEMOCRITUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy of your opulent atoms! Wouldst thou dare Last Line: Christ with immortal love-beams laves the height. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Jesus Christ; Philosophy & Philosophers | |||
Joy of your opulent atoms! wouldst thou dare Say that Thought also of atoms self-became, Waving to soul as light had the eye in aim; And so with things of bodily sense compare Those native notions that the heavens declare, Space and Time, Beauty and God -- Praise we his name! -- Real ideas, that on tongues of flame From out mind's cooling paste leapt unaware? Thy spirit, Democritus, orb'd in the eterne Illimitable galaxy of night Shinith undimm'd where greater splendours burn Of sage and poet: by their influence bright We are held; and pouring from his quenchless urn Christ with immortal love-beams laves the height. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: READING/RUSSELL SAYS, 'THERE IS NO RHINOCEROS IN by ROBERT CREELEY THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE THREE SONNETS by RICHARD WILBUR OLD ARISTIPPUS by ANSELM HOLLO PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE by ANSELM HOLLO FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES by CAROLYN KIZER I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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