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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HEROD'S LAMENT FOR MARIAMNE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mariamne! Now for thee Last Line: Which unconsumed are still consuming! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jews; Judaism | |||
OH, Mariamne! now for thee The heart for which thou bled'st is bleeding; Revenge is lost in agony, And wild remorse to rage succeeding. Oh, Mariamne! where art thou? Thou canst not hear my bitter pleading: Ah! couldst thou -- thou wouldst pardon now, Though Heaven were to my prayer unheeding. And is she dead? -- and did they dare Obey my frenzy's jealous raving? My wrath but doom'd my own despair: The sword that smote her's o'er me waving. -- But thou art cold, my murder'd love! And this dark heart is vainly craving For her who soars alone above, And leaves my soul unworthy saving. She's gone, who shared my diadem; She sunk, with her my joys entombing; I swept that flower from Judah's stem, Whose leaves for me alone were blooming; And mine's the guilt, and mine the hell, This bosom's desolation dooming; And I have earn'd those tortures well, Which unconsumed are still consuming! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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