The noblest name in Allegory's page, <br />The hand that traced inexorable rage; <br />A pleasing moralist whose page refined, <br />Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind; <br />A tender poet of a foreign tongue, <br />(Indited in the language that he sung.) <br />A bard of brilliant but unlicensed page <br />At once the shame and glory of our age, <br />The prince of harmony and stirling sense, <br />The ancient dramatist of eminence, <br />The bard that paints imagination's powers, <br />And him whose song revives departed hours, <br />Once more an ancient tragic bard recall, <br />In boldness of design surpassing all. <br />These names when rightly read, a name [make] known <br />Which gathers all their glories in its own.<br /><br />Edgar Allan Poe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/enigma-13/
