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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO LIBERTY, by OSCAR WILDE Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes Last Line: God knows it I am with them, in some things. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty | |||
NOT that I love thy children, whose dull eyes See nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -- But that the roar of thy Democracies, Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies, Mirror my wildest passions like the sea, -- And give my rage a brother! Liberty! For this sake only do thy dissonant cries Delight my discreet soul, else might all kings By bloody knout or treacherous cannonades Rob nations of their rights inviolate And I remain unmoved -- and yet, and yet, These Christs that die upon the barricades, God knows it I am with them, in some things. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER |
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