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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EVICTION, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unruly tenant of my heart Last Line: And hast possession as before. Subject(s): Hearts; Love | |||
UNRULY tenant of my heart, Full fain would I be quit of thee. I've played too long a losing part. Thou bringest me neither gold nor fee. 'Tis time thou shouldst thy holding yield, Thy will and mine no longer meet. With cockle hast thou sowed my field, With squanderings all the public street. Thy presence doth disturb my pride. Let me be owner of my own. I fling thee with thy goods outside And bar re-entry with a stone. Begone and hide thee from my face. I will not see thee chiding there. Away, to live in my disgrace! Away, to die in thy despair! O impotence of human wit! The law is mine, the fault in thee, And yet in vain I serve the writ, In vain I scourge thee with decree. For lo, in stillness of the night, O'erturning stone and guard and door, Thou art come with thy lost tenant-right And hast possession as before. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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