Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: EUROPE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS First Line: Europe rejoice! The uprising south awakes Last Line: Swept darkly down time's unreturning stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Europe | ||||||||
XIV. EUROPE rejoice! the uprising South awakes From her inglorious slumber: in her veins A pulse long lost is throbbing, and her chains Indignant from each sun-bright clime she shakes; To her proud shout the far North answer makes; Germania her dull tyranny disdains: Her call is heard o'er hyperborean plains, And on his blood-stained throne the imperial despot quakes! A mightier hour rolls on; the orient beam Of a new morn of intellectual light Is dawning, man's o'erclouded soul to clear; And like the phantoms of a feverish night Dungeons and crowns and creeds shall disappear, Swept darkly down Time's unreturning stream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH: EUROPE by ANNE CARSON SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940 by NORMAN DUBIE DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS by GEOFFREY HILL DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER EUROPE A PROPHECY by WILLIAM BLAKE ON REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES by WALT WHITMAN TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE by WALT WHITMAN ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 11. TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND by MARK AKENSIDE A NIGHT THOUGHT; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS by JOHN CHALK CLARIS AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE POET MOORE by JOHN CHALK CLARIS |
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