Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Original Text
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes, Riverside Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890), III, 200-01. PS 2250 E90 Robarts Library.
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
Publication Start Year
1875
Publication Notes
In The Masque of Pandora
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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