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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 SUGGESTED BY THE COVER OF A VOLUME OF KEATS'S POEMS by AMY LOWELL THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 32 by CECIL DAY LEWIS A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 9 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY by WALT WHITMAN FROM POOLS OF DEEPER THOUGHT by MAUDE HARDY ARNOLD GIACINTA by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ODE by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA A HYMN OF FORM by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |
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