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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 A PRAISE OF HIS LOVE by HENRY HOWARD THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER by EDMUND SPENSER THE LONG AGO by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR A FARMHOUSE DIRGE by ALFRED AUSTIN ON THE ART OF WRITING by PHILIP AYRES THE END OF THE WORLD by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 5. SPEAKING OF DRIVING by BERTON BRALEY |
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