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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEATHLESS, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES Poet's Biography First Line: What charlatans in this later day Last Line: The feet of rosalind. | |||
WHAT charlatans in this later day Beat at the gates of Art! Each with his trick of speech or brush, -- Forgetting, that apart From all the brawling of an age, Its feverish fantasy, She waits, who only unto Time The soul of Art sets free! God's handmaid Beauty, -- whose touch rounds A dewdrop or a world, -- God-sprung when first through Chaos' night The morning wings unfurled; Beauty, -- who still the secret gives Whispered the ages through, -- Recurrent as the flush of dawn, Essential as the dew. O babblers of some surer guide! -- Knowledge goes changing by; Caprice may bloom its little hour, And creeds are born and die; Still Melos on her worshippers Looks with calm-lidded eyes; Still Helen, though Troy sleeps in dust, Smiles through the centuries; Still she who gleaned on Judah's plain Love in her sheaves doth bind; Still, down the glades of Arden, dance The feet of Rosalind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SALEM WITCH by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES AN OPAL by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES THE DANCER by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES THE MOCKING-BIRD [IN A GARDEN] by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES TO A WILD ROSE FOUND IN OCTOBER by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS by ROBERT BURNS EVENING CLOUDS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EURIPIDES by ALEXANDER AETOLUS |
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