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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A GROTTO AND WARM SPRING, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Within this grot did amphitrite
Last Line: Where poets worshipped, worship thou.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Lepanto, Gulf Of
First Line: Within this grot did amphitrite
Last Line: Where poets worshipped, worship thou.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Lepanto, Gulf Of
AT THE HEAD OF THE GULF OF LEPANTO.
WITHIN this grot did Amphitrite,
Willing a beauteous shore to bless,
Expose the full unshaded light
Of all her ocean-queenliness.
Into the rock the vital glow
Past out from her translucid form,
And thus the springs that hither flow
Are made forever summer-warm.
Alas! the name of her who wrought
This work, and all her glorious train,
Have faded far from common thought,
And never will be there again.
But thou, -- who in these tempered waves
Delightest thy dust-fevered brow, --
For thee the past has no such graves,
Where poets worshipped, worship thou.
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