SINGERS there are of courtly themes -- @3Drapers@1 in verse -- who would dress their rhymes In robes of ermine; and singers of dreams Of gods high-throned in the classic times; Singers of nymphs, in their dim retreats, Satyrs, with scepter and diadem; But the singer who sings as a man's heart beats Well may blush for the rest of them. I like the thrill of such poems as these, -- All spirit and fervor of splendid fact -- Pulse, and muscle, and arteries Of living, heroic thought and act! -- Where every line is a vein of red And rapturous blood all unconfined As it leaps from a heart that has joyed and bled With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOUSE'S PETITION TO DOCTOR PRIESTLY FOUND IN THE TRAP .. by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON TO HIS MISTRESS OBJECTING TO HIM NEITHER TOYING OR TALKING by ROBERT HERRICK YUSSOUF by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |