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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON TURNER'S POLYPHEMUS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poet's Biography First Line: Painter of day, let my dark spirit fly Last Line: Of hyacinthine mist, and shining gold. Subject(s): Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851) | |||
Painter of day, let my dark spirit fly Past the Trinacrian Sound, to gaze upon The deathless horses of Hyperion Driven up fiery stairs tumultuously: To see once more the Achaian prows glide by, Odysseus in his burnished galleon, Nereides that sing him swiftly on, And baffled Cyclops fading in the sky. Master, you paint the passion of the Earth, The faint victorious music of her birth, The splendour of things lost and things grown old; And show us song new-wrought with ardent might Of strong-winged morning and of sure delight, Of hyacinthine mist, and shining gold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KATRINA ON THE PORCH; A BIT OF TURNER PUT INTO WORDS by ALICE CARY SONNET ON TURNER'S PICTURE, OF THE TEMERAIRE MAN-OF-WAR by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES TURNER'S SUNRISE by HELEN SMITH BEVINGTON TURNER'S OLD TEMERAIRE: UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TURNER'S INTERIOR AT PETWORTH by JORDAN MILLER SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN) by JAMES ELROY FLECKER THE OLD SHIPS by JAMES ELROY FLECKER A FRAGMENT by JAMES ELROY FLECKER A MIRACLE OF BETHLEHEM by JAMES ELROY FLECKER A NEW YEAR'S CAROL by JAMES ELROY FLECKER |
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