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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DELIRIUM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion Last Line: Buried above ground. Variant Title(s): Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity;lines Written Under The Influence Of Delirium Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness | |||
HATRED and vengeance,--my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution,-- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in a moment. Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was, Who for a few pence sold his holy Master! Twice-betrayed Jesus me, the last delinquent, Deems the profanest. Man disavows, and Deity disowns me, Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore, Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers; Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished! to receive a sentence Worse than Abiram's. Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; I, fed with judgment, in a fleshly tomb, am Buried above ground. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN by MARVIN BELL VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS by ELIZABETH BISHOP FOR THE MAD by LUCILLE CLIFTON STONEHENGE by ALBERT GOLDBARTH DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL by MICHAEL S. HARPER SEELE IN RAUM by RANDALL JARRELL A COMPARISON by WILLIAM COWPER |
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