Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE


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SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one
Last Line: All stars are angels; but the sun is god.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one
Spake, might the word be said that might speak Thee.
Streams, winds, woods, flowers, fields, mountains, yea, the sea,
What power is in them all to praise the sun?
His praise is this, -- he can be praised of none.
Man, woman, child, praise God for him; but he
He is; and, being, beholds his work well done.
All joy, all glory, all sorrow, all strength, all mirth,
Are his: without him, day were night on earth.
Time knows not his from time's own period.
All lutes, all harps, all viols, all flutes, all lyres,
Fall dumb before him ere one string suspires,
All stars are angels; but the sun is God.





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