Living
After Reading "Tamburlaine the Great"
From The Poems of William Watson (1893)
Living
Your Marlowe's page I close, my Shakspere's ope.
How welcome--after gong and cymbal's din--
The continuity, the long slow slope
And vast curves of the gradual violin!
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MLA
Watson, William. “After Reading "Tamburlaine the Great".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/95/.
Chicago
Watson, William. “After Reading "Tamburlaine the Great".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/95/.
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