Classic Poem

Daughter of Grecian Genius! from whose soul
Pure—English—womanly high thought and feeling
Their heart-sprung Poetry's rich treasures roll
Ev'n critic taste and reason's wonder stealing,
As hurrying tow'rd impassion'd meaning's goal,
Expression under Fancy's torrent reeling,
Thy spirit seems to burst from Earth's control
Its Heav'n-born Myths in music's breath revealing!
How sweet, how bright, how lovely, how sublime,
Majestic and exhaustless is the stream,
Pour'd forth by Nature, thus enrich'd by Time,
Shaming the golden tides that poets dream—
The ever-glorious Sea of deathless rhyme
Wherein [sun], sky, and stars reflected gleam!