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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TITIAN'S ASSUMPTION, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poet's Biography First Line: Burst is the iron gate! Last Line: We, of the wondrous art that gives it to our eyes! Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Death; Heaven; Miracles; Titian (1490-1576); Dead, The; Paradise; Vecelli, Tiziano; Vecellio, Tiziano | |||
BURST is the iron gate! And, from the night of fate, Out of the darkness and the gloom abhorred; Amidst the choral hymn, With cloud and cherubim, The Virgin leaves the tomb—arisen like her Lord! Free in the heavens she soars, While the clear radiance pours, Like a vast glory, round her upward face; And higher still, and higher, With the angelic choir, The soul by grace regained, regains the realms of grace. In mortal shape! and yet, Upon her brow is set The new celestial glory, like a crown; Her eyes anticipate The bright eternal state; Her arms to heaven extend; to her the heavens reach down! We, with the saints beneath, Half lose our mortal breath, With sense and soul still following where she flies; They, rapt into the light Of the miraculous sight— We, of the wondrous art that gives it to our eyes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TITIAN'S TWO LOVES, IN THE BORGHESE by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON TITIAN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY ENDYMION; A MYSTICAL COMMENT ON TITIAN'S 'SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE' by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL NOTHING TO WEAR' by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER THE INCOGNITA OF RAPHAEL by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER A GOLDEN WEDDING: C.B.-E.A.B., 1825-1875 by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER A MIDNIGHT SUN EPISODE by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER A SILVER WEDDING: B.F.B.-E.G.B., 1855-1880 by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER ALL'S WELL by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER AT RICHMOND by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER |
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