Classic Poem

Ah! shade unseen to tension teeming,
Through our stally pale insight veering,
Its monster claws uphold thy instant glance
Of raging flames that sustain
Its prolonged trance. There! hast
Thou not sat above the law?
Almighty's marrow thou canst diverge;
Who sanctified thy plaintive's lust? —
That classic rainbow unceasing hues
Upheld by the pillars of genius thrust
And bore the talent far from his own.
Thou canst not disguise a felon's worth,
Who reared demon's quest, resisted throne;
But love, within Hippocrene's wand, thou canst dissolve alone.