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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE STATUE OF AN ANGEL, BY BIENAIME, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who can look on that celestial face Last Line: There lives within him an immortal part! Subject(s): Statues | |||
Ah, who can look on that celestial face, And kindred for it claim with aught on earth? If ever here more lovely form had birth, -- No, never that supernal purity, -- that grace So eloquent of unimpassioned love! That, by a simple movement, thus imparts Its own harmonious peace, the while our hearts Rise, as by instinct, to the world above. And yet we look on cold, unconscious stone. But what is that which thus our spirits own As Truth and Life? 'T is not material Art, -- But e'en the Sculptor's soul to sense unsealed. O, never may he doubt, -- its witness so revealed, -- There lives within him an immortal part! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAMBERGER REITER by MARY KINZIE FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN by CATE MARVIN STATUE AND BIRDS by LOUISE BOGAN STATUES IN THE PARK by BILLY COLLINS STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE STATUE OF A LIBERTINE by RON PADGETT |
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