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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE PICTURES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen many things in many lands Last Line: Burneth athirst like the red pit of hell. Subject(s): Pictures | |||
I HAVE seen many things in many lands, And many sorrows known and many joys, And clutched at pleasure's cup with lawless hands, And drunk my fill of mirth and lust and noise, Nor spared to make of human hearts my toys, But fed with life the brute strength of my pride, As with a tribute of fair living boys The monstrous lord of Crete him satisfied. But of all pictures laid up in my soul Are three most beautiful and passionate, The illumined margin of an ancient scroll, Which moraliseth pity, love and hate; And these, when she is sad, she doth unroll And on their common meaning meditate. THE first, a woman, nobly limbed and fair, Standeth at sunset by a famed far sea. Red are her lips as Love's own kisses were, Yet speak they never though they smile on me. An old knight, next, and arméd cap-à-pie, Watcheth the slaughtered clay that was his heir. The winding-sheet is not more white than he, Hath sat since dawn and hath not shed a tear. The third a tortured bull about to die In the arena. No proud infidel E'er laid his dripping spears more scornfully In Spanish dust; for he too, ere he fell, Hath slain a man. Ah Christ! That murderous eye Burneth athirst like the red pit of Hell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by HETTIE JONES PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING by CLARENCE MAJOR FEMALE PORTRAIT, 19TH CENTURY by TOMAS TRANSTROMER THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: PICTURES OF BUGS BUNNY DRESSED LIKE A THUG by JORDAN DAVIS PICTURES OF MOTHER by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH SINGING HANDS by CAREY YATES BUSBY 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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