English Poetry. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’. Томас Беддоус.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Томас Беддоус)

Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’

Write it in gold - a Spirit of the sun,
An Intellect ablaze with heavenly thoughts,
A soul with all the dews of pathos shining,
Odorous with love, and sweet to silent woe
With the dark glories of concentrate song,
Was sphered in mortal earth. Angelic sounds
Alive with panting thoughts sunned the dim world.
The bright creations of an human heart
Wrought magic in the bosoms of mankind.
A flooding summer burst on Poetry;
Of which the crowning sun, the night of beauty,
The dancing showers, the birds, whose anthems wild
Note after note unbind the enchanted leaves
Of breaking buds, eve, and the flow of dawn,
Were centred and condensed in his one name
As in a providence - and that was SHELLEY.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s other poems:

1. To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty
2. Song from Torrismond
3. Resurrection Song
4. Song of the Stygian Naiades
5. Song from the Second Brother

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