Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
THIS mound in some remote and dateless day Reared o'er a chieftain of the age of hills, May here detain thee, traveller! from thy road Not idly lingering. In his narrow house Some warrior sleeps below; his gallant deeds Haply at many a solemn festival The bard has harped, but perished is the song Of praise, as o'er these bleak and barren downs The wind that passes and is heard no more. Go, traveller, and remember when the pomp Of earthly glory fades, that one good deed Unseen, unheard, unnoted by mankind, Lives in the eternal register of heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING BISHOP BRUNO by ROBERT SOUTHEY |
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