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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POWERS OF THE SONNET, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poet's Biography First Line: Why should the tiny harp be chained to themes Last Line: Rapture and grief, solemnity and fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer | |||
Why should the tiny harp be chained to themes In fourteen lines with pedant rigor bound? The sonnet's might is mightier than it seems: Witness the bard of Eden lost and found, Who gave this lute a clarion's battle sound. And, lo! another Milton calmly turns His eyes within on light that ever burns, Waiting till Wordsworth's second peer be found! Meantime, Fitzadam's mournful music shows That the scorned sonnet's charm may yet endear Some long deep strain, or lay of well-told woes; Such as, in Byron's couplet, brings a tear To manly cheeks, or o'er his stanza throws Rapture and grief, solemnity and fear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BATTLE SONG by EBENEZER ELLIOTT CORN-LAW HYMN by EBENEZER ELLIOTT ON COMMUNISTS; EPIGRAM by EBENEZER ELLIOTT A GHOST AT NOON by EBENEZER ELLIOTT BOTHWELL; A DRAMATIC POEM by EBENEZER ELLIOTT BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842 by EBENEZER ELLIOTT COME AND GONE by EBENEZER ELLIOTT CORN LAW RHYMES, SELECTION by EBENEZER ELLIOTT |
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