A poem by this author imagines the last judgment as a “horrid clang” when “the wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep” before “time will run back, and fetch the age of gold.” In that poem by this author, a choir of Cherubim and Seraphim sing a “holy song” not heard since creation after the title event, which causes all pagan oracles to go silent. This poet wrote an elegy in Latin on the death of his best friend, Charles Diodati. A sonnet by this poet laments (*) turning twenty-three because of “Time, the subtle thief of youth.” An elegy by this poet ends, “Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new,” and inspired the title of Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. An elegy by this author mourns the drowning of Edward King. For 10 points, name this author whose early poems include “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” and “Lycidas.” ■END■
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