The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CVI

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



THE SUBLIME
To stand upon a windy pinnacle,
Beneath the infinite blue of the blue noon,
And underfoot a valley terrible
As that dim gulf, where sense and being swoon
When the soul parts; a giant valley strewn
With giant rocks; asleep, and vast, and still,
And far away. The torrent, which has hewn
His pathway through the entrails of the hill,
Now crawls along the bottom and anon
Lifts up his voice, a muffled tremulous roar,
Borne on the wind an instant, and then gone
Back to the caverns of the middle air;
A voice as of a nation overthrown
With beat of drums, when hosts have marched to war.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBCCDCDCEFGHE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 589
Words 113
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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