Selected Poems of Herman Melville by Herman Melville

Selected Poems of Herman Melville by Herman Melville

Author:Herman Melville
Language: eng
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Published: 2010-08-27T03:00:00+00:00


Of Art the miracles

Its tribes of pinnacles

Gleam like to ice-peaks snowed; and higher,

Erect upon each airy spire

In concourse without end,

Statues of saints over saints ascend

Like multitudinous forks of fire.

What motive was the master-builder's here?

Why these synodic hierarchies given,

Sublimely ranked in marble sessions clear,

Except to signify the host of heaven.

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THE PARTHENON.

I.

Seen aloft from afar.

Estranged in site,

Aerial gleaming, warmly white,

You look a suncloud motionless

In noon of day divine;

Your beauty charmed enhancement takes

In Art's long after-shine.



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