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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AUSTIN DOBSON, by ARTHUR KETCHUM First Line: Not unto you the gods gave wings Last Line: As spring has still its daffodils. | |||
NOT unto you the gods gave wings, To scale the far Olympic height, But made content with simpler things, Your Pegasus takes lower flight. Yet while into oblivion float Those vaster songs, sublimely grand -- All men are listening to your note, And as they listen, understand. Sing on, then, while the heart of youth In glad accordance answ'ring thrills, And life and love have still their truth, As spring has still its daffodils. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GEORGE DU MAURIER by ARTHUR KETCHUM MY LADY GOES TO THE PLAY by ARTHUR KETCHUM ODE ON THE SPRING by THOMAS GRAY REUBEN JAMES by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE AUTUMN WOODS by ANNA M. ACKERMANN SAINT MAY: A CITY LYRIC by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY A CHARACTER OF HIS FRIEND, W.B. ESQ by PHILIP AYRES THE ANCIENTS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET NIGHT ON OUR LIVES by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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