John Swanwick Drennan
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A lifeless solitude- an angry waste,
Searing our alien eyes with horrors bare;
No fertilizing cloud- no genial air
To mitigate its savageness of breast;
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John Swanwick Drennan (1809–1893) was an Irish poet. Drennan was a son of William Drennan and a grandson of Thomas Drennan, minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Belfast. He had an elder brother, William Drennan (1802–73). His poems, On the Telescopic Moon and Epigrams were featured in The Faber Book of Irish Verse in 1974.)
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On The Telescopic Moon
A lifeless solitude- an angry waste,
Searing our alien eyes with horrors bare;
No fertilizing cloud- no genial air
To mitigate its savageness of breast;
The light itself all undiffusive there;
Motionless terror clinging to the crest
Of steepmost pinnacles; as by despair
Unfathomable caverns still possessed!
How shall we designate such world forlorn?
What nook of Heaven abhors this portent dark?
Lo! where the Moon reveals her gentle ray,
Waking the nightingale's and poet's lay;
Speeding benign the voyager's return;
And lighting furtive kisses to their mark!
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