Famous Eruption Poems by Famous Poets

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Monolog From A Mattress

...ut "those high
Abodes of all the blest" provoked his temper.
"Abodes? The stars?" He froze me with a sneer,
"A light eruption on the firmament."
"But," cried romantic I, "is there no sphere
Where virtue is rewarded when we die?"
And Hegel mocked, "A very pleasant whim.
So you demand a bonus since you spent
One lifetime and refrained from poisoning
Your testy grandmother!" ... How much of him
Remains in me—even when I am caught
In dreams of death and immortality.
T...Read more of this...
by Untermeyer, Louis


Paradise Lost: Book 01

...whom his choice regard 
Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven. 
Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps 
Our first eruption--thither, or elsewhere; 
For this infernal pit shall never hold 
Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss 
Long under darkness cover. But these thoughts 
Full counsel must mature. Peace is despaired; 
For who can think submission? War, then, war 
Open or understood, must be resolved." 
 He spake; and, to confirm his words, outflew 
Millions of fl...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 08

...d we had) 
To see that none thence issued forth a spy, 
Or enemy, while God was in his work; 
Lest he, incensed at such eruption bold, 
Destruction with creation might have mixed. 
Not that they durst without his leave attempt; 
But us he sends upon his high behests 
For state, as Sovran King; and to inure 
Our prompt obedience. Fast we found, fast shut, 
The dismal gates, and barricadoed strong; 
But long ere our approaching heard within 
Noise, other than the sound of dance...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Eruption Of Vesuvius

...crest 
 Shoots like a vulture's neck reared from its airy nest. 
 
 Sudden a flash, and from th' enormous den 
 Th' eruption's lurid mass bursts forth amain, 
 Bounding in frantic ecstasy. Ah! then 
 Farewell to Grecian fount and Tuscan fane! 
 Sails in the bay imbibe the purpling stain, 
 The while the lava in profusion wide 
 Flings o'er the mountain's neck its showery locks untied. 
 
 It comes—it comes! that lava deep and rich, 
 That dower which fertilizes fi...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Glove

...reached and they rested
On space that might stand him in best stead:
For who knew, he thought, what the amazement,
The eruption of clatter and blaze meant,
And if, in this minute of wonder,
No outlet, 'mid lightning and thunder,
Lay broad, and, his shackles all shivered,
The lion at last was delivered?
Ay, that was the open sky o'erhead!
And you saw by the flash on his forehead,
By the hope in those eyes wide and steady,
He was leagues in the desert already,
Driving the floc...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


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