George Chapman

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Title:     George Chapman
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne [More Titles by Swinburne]

High priest of Homer, not elect in vain,
Deep trumpets blow before thee, shawms behind
Mix music with the rolling wheels that wind
Slow through the labouring triumph of thy train:
Fierce history, molten in thy forging brain,
Takes form and fire and fashion from thy mind,
Tormented and transmuted out of kind:
But howsoe'er thou shift thy strenuous strain,
Like Tailor[1] smooth, like Fisher[2] swollen, and now
Grim Yarrington[3] scarce bloodier marked than thou,
Then bluff as Mayne's[4] or broad-mouthed Barry's[5] glee;
Proud still with hoar predominance of brow
And beard like foam swept off the broad blown sea,
Where'er thou go, men's reverence goes with thee.

[1] Author of _The Hog hath lost his Pearl_.

[2] Author of _Fuimus Troes, or the True Trojans_.

[3] Author of _Two Tragedies in One_.

[4] Author of _The City Match_.

[5] Author of _Ram-Alley, or Merry Tricks_.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem: George Chapman

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