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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. First Line: All earth is a poet Last Line: Of the munificent ear. Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) | |||
All earth is a poet, All nature doth know it, Each firefly doth show it, Each frost work doth rhyme. Poor man who the fool is, And prone as the pool is, May yet learn God's rule is: All prose is part crime. The dust that we tread in, The swirls we are sped in, The throes we are wed in, Were dust, dust and dust. If out of God's treasure There came not a measure Of rhythmical pleasure In sibilant trust. Thy gift was a yearning That paradised learning, And ended in turning All seasons to Junes Through death that caresses, Through hatred that blesses, And love that distresses, And words that are tunes. A Milton may ghoul us, A Shakespeare may rule us, A Wordsworth may school us, A Tennyson cheer; But thine is the glory, Star-sprung from the hoary, Flame-dependent story Of the munificent ear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE by SARA TEASDALE HOME, SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS: 2. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH A FIRST EDITION OF ATALANTA IN CALYDON by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.) by PHILIP GUEDALLA A SINGER ASLEEP by THOMAS HARDY PERSONAL SONNET: TO ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE OCTOPUS by ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON FELO DE SE; WITH APOLOGIES TO SWINBURNE by AMY LEVY THE POETS AT TEA: 3. SWINBURNE, WHO LET IT GET COLD by BARRY PAIN ANSWER TO DUNBAR'S 'AFTER A VISIT' by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. |
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