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Poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman


“Ergo Iris”


Weary at length of the ancestral gloom,
⁠     The self-same drone, the patter of dull pens,
Nature sent Iris of the rosy plume,
⁠     Bearing to Holmes her wonder-working lens;
Grateful, he gave his dearest child her name,
⁠     Lit the shrewd East with laughter, love, and tears,—
Bade halt the sun—and arching into fame
⁠     His rainbowed fancy now the world enspheres.

August 29, 1889

Edmund Clarence Stedman


Edmund Clarence Stedman's other poems:
  1. The Duke’s Exequy
  2. Yale Ode for Commencement Day
  3. George Arnold
  4. Custer
  5. Hawthorne


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