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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BENINA TO BELSHAZZAR, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poet's Biography First Line: I hear abroad Last Line: Even monuments are silent of belshazzar! | |||
-- I hear abroad The exultation of unfetter'd earth! -- From east to west they lift their trampled necks, The indignant nations: earth breaks out in scorn; The valleys dance and sing; the mountains shake Their cedar-crowned tops! The strangers crowd To gaze upon the howling wilderness, Where stood the Queen of Nations. Lo! even now, Lazy Euphrates rolls his sullen waves Through wastes, and but reflects his own thick reeds. I hear the bitterns shriek, the dragons cry; I see the shadow of the midnight owl Gliding where now are laughter-echoing palaces! O'er the vast plain I see the mighty tombs Of kings, in sad and broken whiteness gleam Beneath the o'ergrown cypress -- but no tomb Bears record, Babylon, of thy last lord; Even monuments are silent of Belshazzar! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHRIST CRUCIFIED by HENRY HART MILMAN EVENING SONG OF MAIDENS by HENRY HART MILMAN FUNERAL ANTHEM by HENRY HART MILMAN HYMN BY THE EUPHRATES by HENRY HART MILMAN HYMN FOR THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY by HENRY HART MILMAN LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM by HENRY HART MILMAN THE CRUCIFIXION by HENRY HART MILMAN THE MERRY HEART by HENRY HART MILMAN |
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