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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEST LONDON, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Crouched on the pavement, close by belgrave square
Last Line: And points us to a better time than ours.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Freedom; London; Liberty
First Line: Crouched on the pavement, close by belgrave square
Last Line: And points us to a better time than ours.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Freedom; London; Liberty
Crouched on the pavement close by Belgrave Square
A tramp I saw, ill, moody, and tongue-tied;
A babe was in her arms, and at her side
A girl; their clothes were rags, their feet were bare.
Some laboring men, whose work lay somewhere there,
Passed opposite; she touched her girl, who hied
Across, and begged, and came back satisfied.
The rich she had let pass with frozen stare.
Thought I: Above her state this spirit towers;
She will not ask of aliens, but of friends,
Of sharers in a common human fate.
She turns from that cold succour, which attends
The unknown little from the unknowing great,
And points us to a better time than ours.
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