The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems
Speak...)
Excerpt from The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems
Speak! Said my soul, be stern and adequate The sunset falls from Heaven, the year is late, Love waits with fallen tresses at thy gate And mourns for perished days. Speak! In the rigor of thy fate and mine, Ere these scant, dying days, bright-lipped with wine, All one by one depart, resigned, divine.
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When, as my peers before me, I shall fall Shattered with light, and, lost beyond recall, Mix and resolve in thy creative slime.
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Eve Utterly lost His hand has...)
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Eve Utterly lost His hand has loosed the four relentless winds Against this delicate toy of His creation, And lifted out of Chaos the elder night, And set against the paths to Paradise Seraphim and the sword of circling flamel And we we go beyond! 0 night and death!
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Having recovered from his madness ...)
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Having recovered from his madness and become aware of his error, he was greatly afflicted by the excess of his misfortune he remained quietly withdrawn in his house for a long time, avoiding all human society. Time having calmed his grief, Herakles went to Eurystheus, determined to affront every peril and per form the labours.
Zeus kept Prometheus chained for having given fire to mankind, and caused his heart to be devoured by an eagle. Herakles, seeing that Prometheus was punished only for having done good to men, 0 saved the common benefactor.
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George Cabot Lodge was an American poet and soldier.
Background
George Cabot Lodge was born on October 10, 1973 at Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills (Davis) Lodge. His childhood was spent in his father's home on the windy peninsula of Nahant; and as he grew older he became the protégé of that charmed circle which included Henry Adams, Edith Wharton, Sturgis Bigelow, John Hay, Cecil Spring-Rice, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Education
At the age of eighteen Lodge entered Harvard. In college he passed four studious and thoughtful years, read Leconte de Lisle, Renan, Schopenhauer, and the Upanishads, and developed a mood of poetic pessimism which sat oddly upon his perfect health and joyous vitality. The winter of 1895-1896 was spent with his friend Joseph Trumbull Stickney at the Sorbonne in Paris, observing the humors of the Boulevards and reading the Italian and Greek poets. The next year at the University of Berlin he mastered the German language, frequented the productions of classic drama, took courses in philosophy, and digested the initiation into esoteric Buddhism which he had received the previous summer at Tuckanuck from his life-long mentor Dr. Bigelow.
Career
In the autumn of 1897 Lodge settled in Washington as his father's secretary. His first volume The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems was published in the spring of 1898. Here, along with echoes of Whitman, Browning, Swinburne, Leconte de Lisle, and Leopardi, were found his characteristic elevation of thought and sonorous melody of verse, culminating in the fine sonnet "To Silence" beginning: "Lord of the deserts 'twixt a million spheres. "
The year 1898 brought the Spanish-American War, a vivid episode in his life. As ensign on the Dixie, under his uncle, Capt. Charles H. Davis, he commanded a gun crew, fought two minor engagements, was of the landing party that demanded the surrender of Ponce, Porto Rico, and with his own hands raised the American flag over the city hall.
After the war Lodge resumed his duties as secretary of a Senate committee, yet, as always, reading omnivorously and writing copiously. Several novels and plays were written and destroyed, but his sonnets began to meet a welcome from the editors of Scribner's, the Century, and the Atlantic Monthly. After a winter in Paris the remaining eight years of his life were passed at Washington, with summers at Tuckanuck, in domestic happiness, numerous friendships, vigorous open-air life by day, and, unfortunately for his health, constant poetic composition far into the night. He died of heart failure following an attack of ptomaine poisoning, at Nantucket.
The brief years of Lodge's poetic activity produced a remarkable body of published work. Following The Song of the Wave in 1898 came Poems (1899 - 1902) in 1902, Cain, a Drama in 1904, The Great Adventure, inspired by the death of Trumbull Stickney, in 1905, and Herakles in 1908. The Soul's Inheritance, and Other Poems appeared in 1909 after his death. In 1911 his Poems and Dramas were published in two volumes with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, companioned by a third containing an intimate and perceptive biography by Henry Adams.
Lodge was a sound scholar in the fields of philosophy, and of classic and contemporary literature. His early work was academic, a little rhetorical, more than a little metaphysical, but with each succeeding volume he came nearer to the poignant realities of modern life. He fell, however, upon a barren time in English poetry, and died before the first stirrings of the poetic renaissance which preceded the Great War. During his lifetime both the production of poetry and public interest in it were at lowest ebb. Outside of the circle of his friends he had small appreciation while living and has found few readers since his death. Yet his two poetic dramas, Cain, presenting the eternal foe of compromise, and Herakles, the vicarious savior of mankind, do not suffer in comparison with any others in American literature. A half-dozen of his sonnets belong with the best in our language.