Where are the Poets, unto whom belong
The Olympian heights; whose singing shafts were sent
Straight to the mark, and not from bows half bent,
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I came across this poem after reading an NYTimes review of a new book on Longfellow, which prompted me to reread some of his poems in an American poetry anthology that I have. This one struck me because it seems to prophecy Whitman, almost to a T. Anyone?
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I came across this poem after reading an NYTimes review of a new book on Longfellow, which prompted me to reread some of his poems in an American poetry anthology that I have. This one struck me because it seems to prophecy Whitman, almost to a T. Anyone?