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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CRYSTAL, by TITUS MUNSON COAN First Line: Olympian sunlight is the poet's sphere Last Line: And leaps to life beneath a kindred spell. | |||
OLYMPIAN sunlight is the Poet's sphere; Yet of his rapt unconscious thought at play The wintry stream gave image but to-day, When first the frost his magic made appear; The darkling water dreamed, and mirrored clear, A thousand miles adown, the clouds' array, Nor any gleam or stirring did betray The secret of the transformation near -- When, lo! what beauty flashing from the night Of formless atoms! Nature stirs amain, Building her crystal arches firm and well, And framing fairy cantilevers bright. So broods the vision in the Poet's brain, And leaps to life beneath a kindred spell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NIHIL HUMANI ALIENUM by TITUS MUNSON COAN ILKA BLADE O' GRASS KEPS ITS AIN DRAP O' DEW by JAMES BALLANTYNE THE FOREST MAID by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN by THOMAS CAMPION OF THE THEME OF LOVE by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH THE SLEEPER by EDGAR ALLAN POE RIVALRY IN LOVE by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) THE FROGS: HYMN OF THE INITIATES by ARISTOPHANES THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS by BESS SAMUEL AYRES |
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