Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
1A vision as of crowded city streets,
2 With human life in endless overflow;
3 Thunder of thoroughfares; trumpets that blow
4 To battle; clamor, in obscure retreats,
5Of sailors landed from their anchored fleets;
6 Tolling of bells in turrets, and below
7 Voices of children, and bright flowers that throw
8 O'er garden-walls their intermingled sweets!
9This vision comes to me when I unfold
10 The volume of the Poet paramount,
11 Whom all the Muses loved, not one alone; --
12Into his hands they put the lyre of gold,
13 And, crowned with sacred laurel at their fount,
Notes
14] Musagetes: leader of the muses, e.g., Apollo. Back to Line