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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CRYSTAL, by TITUS MUNSON COAN First Line: Olympian sunlight is the poet's sphere Last Line: And leaps to life beneath a kindred spell. | |||
OLYMPIAN sunlight is the Poet's sphere; Yet of his rapt unconscious thought at play The wintry stream gave image but to-day, When first the frost his magic made appear; The darkling water dreamed, and mirrored clear, A thousand miles adown, the clouds' array, Nor any gleam or stirring did betray The secret of the transformation near -- When, lo! what beauty flashing from the night Of formless atoms! Nature stirs amain, Building her crystal arches firm and well, And framing fairy cantilevers bright. So broods the vision in the Poet's brain, And leaps to life beneath a kindred spell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NIHIL HUMANI ALIENUM by TITUS MUNSON COAN A SMUGGLER'S SONG by RUDYARD KIPLING THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER THE LIGHT OF STARS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SONNET by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) THE BRIDES' TRAGEDY: ACT 3, SCENE 2 by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES AN EPICED ON MR. FISHBOURNE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE LORDS WELCOME by THOMAS CAMPION |
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