Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRANSFIGURATION; THE OLD 'PAULUS' THEORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: A fiction or a fact? An interview Last Line: That sternest link in the great unity. Subject(s): Gethsemane; Paulus, Heinrich (1761-1851); Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals | ||||||||
A fiction or a fact? an interview Of Christ with His own prophets? or a blink Of moonlight caught by dreaming eyes, that wink And wonder, and report what is not true? When will the impugners of the Gospel claims The deep consistent likeness recognise Between His woes and glories? Living ties That bind in one His honours and His shames? For all coheres; His pangs and triumphs touch Each other, like the wings of Cherubim: Strange was His Birth - His death and rising, such As to bear out that strangeness - and as much May well be said of dark Gethsemane, That sternest link in the great unity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON by WILLIAM MEREDITH PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY by WILL ALEXANDER THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65) by MARVIN BELL THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR WHY FOOL AROUND? by STEPHEN DOBYNS POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1 by NORMAN DUBIE HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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