Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAST VERSES, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, bristolia's dingy piles of brick Last Line: And this last act of wretchedness forgive. Subject(s): Bristol, England; Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
FAREWELL, Bristolia's dingy piles of brick, Lovers of mammon, worshippers of trick! Ye spurned the boy who gave you antique lays, And paid for learning with your empty praise. Farewell, ye guzzling aldermanic fools, By nature fitted for curruption's tools! I go to where celestial anthems swell; But you, when you depart, will sink to hell. Farewell, my mother! -- cease, my anguished soul, Nor let distraction's billows o'er me roll! Have mercy, Heaven! when here I cease to live, And this last act of wretchedness forgive. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND AELLA: MINSTREL'S MARRIAGE-SONG by THOMAS CHATTERTON |
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