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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sin against the holy ghost Last Line: To set the face and make the heart a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; War; Theology | |||
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: -- To speak of bloody power at right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine: -- To go forth killing in White Mercy's name, Making the trenches stink with spattered brains, Tearing the nerves and arteries apart, Sowing with flesh the unreaped golden plains. In any Church's name, to sack fair towns, And turn each home into a screaming sty, To make little children fugitive, And have their mothers for a quick death cry, -- This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: This is the sin no purging can atone: -- To send forth rapine in the name of Christ: -- To set the face and make the heart a stone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A NET TO SNARE THE MOONLIGHT by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY |
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