Sonnet XXXIX. Bayard Taylor.

Christopher Pearse Cranch 1813 (Columbia) – 1892 (Massachusetts)



CAN one so strong in hope, so rich in bloom
That promised fruit of nobler worth than all
He yet had given, drop thus with sudden fall?
The busy brain no more its work resume?
Can death for life so versatile find room?
Still must we fancy thou canst hear our call
Across the sea — with no dividing wall
More dense than space to interpose its doom.
Ah then — farewell, young-hearted genial friend!
Farewell, true poet, who didst grow and build
From thought to thought still upward and still new.
Farewell, unsullied toiler in a guild
Where some defile their hands, and where so few
With aims as pure strive faithful to the end.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBAABBACDEDEC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 624
Words 118
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Christopher Pearse Cranch (March 8, 1813 – January 20, 1892) was an American writer and artist. Son of Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. He graduated from Columbian College (now George Washington University) in 1835 before attending Harvard Divinity School and becoming a licensed preacher. Later, he pursued various occupations: a magazine editor, caricaturist, children's fantasy writer, and a poet.  more…

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