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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMMORTALITY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foiled by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn Last Line: Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life. Subject(s): Immortality | |||
Foiled by our fellow men, depressed, outworn, We leave the brutal world to take its way, And, Patience! in another life, we say, The world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne! And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings; or will they, Who failed under the heat of this life's day. Support the fervors of the heavenly morn? No, no! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagged not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing - only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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