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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO LONGFELLOW (ON HEARING HE WAS ILL), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose potent genius Last Line: Grace, sweetness, power and magnanimity! Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) | |||
O THOU, whose potent genius (like the sun Tenderly mellowed by a rippling haze) Hast gained thee all men's homage, love and praise, Surely thy web of life is not outspun, Thy glory rounded, thy last guerdon won! Nay, poet, nay! -- from thought's calm sunset ways May new-born notes of undegenerate lays Charm back the twilight gloom ere day be done! But past the poet crowned I see the friend -- Frank, courteous, true -- about whose locks of gray, Like golden bees, some glints of summer stray; Clear-eyed, with lips half poised 'twixt smile and sigh; A brow in whose soul-mirroring manhood blend Grace, sweetness, power and magnanimity! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE SHADES OF NIGHT by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LONGFELLOW by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS LONGFELLOW WROTE IT by BERTON BRALEY LONGFELLOW by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH IN MEMORIAM by MIRIAM DEL BANCO LONGFELLOW by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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