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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O.M.B. (DIED NOVEMBER, 1874), by FORD MADOX BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: As one who strives from some fast steamer's Last Line: Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! Subject(s): Brown, Oliver Madox (1855-1874) | |||
As one who strives from some fast steamer's side To note amid the backward-spinning foam And keep in view some separate wreath therefrom, That cheats him even the while he views it glide (Merging in other foam-tracks stretching wide), So strive we to keep clear that day our home First saw you riven -- a memory thence to roam, A shatter'd blossom on the eternal tide! O broken promises that show'd so fair! O morning sun of wit set in despair! O brows made smooth as with the Muse's chrism! O Oliver! ourselves Death's cataclysm Must soon o'ertake -- but not in vain -- not where Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND' by FORD MADOX BROWN CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING I by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE DINNER-PARTY by AMY LOWELL TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE by MARIANNE MOORE TO OUR BLESSED LADY (1) by HENRY CONSTABLE THE TEMPERAMENTS by EZRA POUND ANNUNCIATIO B.V. by JOSEPH BEAUMONT DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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