Thursday, January 1, 2004
The City At The End Of Things Comments
Rating: ★3.0
Beside the pounding cataracts
Of midnight streams unknown to us
'Tis builded in the leafless tracts
And valleys huge of Tartarus.
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Archibald Lampman
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7/19/2025 2:16:10 PM # 1.0.0
I don't praise easily. This strikes me as the best English poem yet written in Canada. It's, in my view, among the top 5 certainly. There are two minor cliches here: 'The silence of eternal night' and 'hand of Time', but they don't disturb the poem as a whole. A great work.