Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SAKIYEH, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall man be nature's fool?' man cries Last Line: Bound blindfold to the groaning wheel of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels | ||||||||
"HOW long shall Man be Nature's fool?" Man cries; "Be like those great, gaunt oxen, drilled and bound, Inexorably driven round and round To turn the water-wheel with bandaged eyes? And as they trudge beneath Egyptian skies, Watering the wrinkled desert's beggared ground, The hoarse Sâkiyeh's lamentable sound Fills all the land as with a people's sighs?" Poor Brutes! Who in unconsciousness sublime, Replenishing the ever-empty jars, Endow the waste with palms and harvest gold: And men, who move in rhythm with moving stars, Should shrink to give the borrowed lives they hold: Bound blindfold to the groaning wheel of Time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WATERWHEEL by ELEANOR VAN WINKLE THE MYSTIC'S VISION by MATHILDE BLIND A CARNIVAL EPISODE by MATHILDE BLIND A CHILD'S FANCY by MATHILDE BLIND A HIGHLAND VILLAGE by MATHILDE BLIND |
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