The noblest name in Allegory's page, The hand that traced inexorable rage; A pleasing moralist whose page refined, Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind; A tender poet of a foreign tongue, (Indited in the language that he sung.) A bard of brilliant but unlicensed page At once the shame and glory of our age, The prince of harmony and stirling sense, The ancient dramatist of eminence, The bard that paints imagination's powers, And him whose song revives departed hours, Once more an ancient tragic bard recall, In boldness of design surpassing all. These names when rightly read, a name [make] known Which gathers all their glories in its own. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE TO EVENING by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) IN THE GARDEN (1) by EMILY DICKINSON THE PRIMROSE by ROBERT HERRICK JOY OF THE MORNING by EDWIN MARKHAM JEWISH HYMN IN BABYLON by HENRY HART MILMAN THE LADY OF SHALOTT by ALFRED TENNYSON YARROW VISITED by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |