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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MESSENGER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wild merriment of wind and bird Last Line: "blind to our agonies of death and birth!" Subject(s): Death; Language; Life; Messages & Messengers; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary | |||
In a wild merriment of wind and bird God's gusty laughter swept me by but now Upon my desperate errand, wondering how Her heart would bear the truth, who ne'er had heard Death's sudden and irrevocable word. Yet all was light upon the upland brow. Rich golden acres, fruitful from the plough, Languished in light. The great sun smiled unstirred. Then my heart raged against such cruel mirth And to my lips there sprang a bitter cry, "Would I were Samson, O thou mocking sky, To bring thee ruining to this careless earth! O proud and callous Beauty, flaunting by Blind to our agonies of death and birth!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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