Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY MUSE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: The vast parnassus never knew thy face Last Line: And watch the world's disaster with a smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tuscany, Italy | ||||||||
THE vast Parnassus never knew thy face, O Muse of mine, O frail and tender elf That dancest in a moonbeam to thyself Where olives rustle in a lonely place! And yet ... thou hast a sort of Tuscan grace; Thou may'st outlive me! Some unborn Filelf One day may range thee on his studious shelf With Lenau, Leopardi, and their race. And so, some time, the sole sad scholar's friend, The melancholy comrade of his dreams, Thou may'st, O Muse, escape a little while The none the less inevitable end: Take heart, therefore, and sing the thing that seems, And watch the world's disaster with a smile. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN EVENING IN TUSCANY by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE ON A SCENE IN TUSCANY by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 1 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 10 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 11 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 12 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 13 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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