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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O.M.B. (DIED NOVEMBER, 1874), by FORD MADOX BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: As one who strives from some fast steamer's Last Line: Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! Subject(s): Brown, Oliver Madox (1855-1874) | |||
As one who strives from some fast steamer's side To note amid the backward-spinning foam And keep in view some separate wreath therefrom, That cheats him even the while he views it glide (Merging in other foam-tracks stretching wide), So strive we to keep clear that day our home First saw you riven -- a memory thence to roam, A shatter'd blossom on the eternal tide! O broken promises that show'd so fair! O morning sun of wit set in despair! O brows made smooth as with the Muse's chrism! O Oliver! ourselves Death's cataclysm Must soon o'ertake -- but not in vain -- not where Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND' by FORD MADOX BROWN THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17. A LOVER'S PLEA by THOMAS CAMPION THE BELLS OF SAN BLAS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONG OF SOLOMON: AWAKE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 26 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH THE WINDS by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES YOUTH SPEAKS by MABEL M. BURTON |
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