John Stanyan Bigg

John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865) was an English poet of the Spasmodic School.

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Ode to the Centenary of Burns (1858)

• No royal palace was prepared for him;
  No silken courtiers slid from room to room,
  Gathering together in the gorgeous gloom
  Of purple hangings, drooping rich and dim;

• For him no silver cressets shed their light,
  No eager joy-bells sounded through the night
  From city minster, or from village tower;
  No loud "hurrahs," sent from deep-chested men,
  Lifted the midnight mist from off the glen
  In celebration of his natal hour.

• He came, and no man knew it; no man knew
  The wondrous boon to Scotland given;
  That there—beneath that grim and wintry blue—
  A glorious Poet, strong and true,
  Had newly dropp'd from heaven!

External links

• Burns centenary poems