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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PORCH IN BELGRAVIA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When, after dawn, the lordly houses hide
Last Line: Which cannot not have been for evermore.
Subject(s): London
First Line: When, after dawn, the lordly houses hide
Last Line: Which cannot not have been for evermore.
Subject(s): London
WHEN, after dawn, the lordly houses hide
Till you fall foul of it, some piteous guest,
Some girl the damp stones gather to their breast,
Her gold hair rough, her rebel garment wide,
Who sleeps, with all that luck and life denied
Camped round, and dreams how seaward and southwest
Blue over Devon farms the smoke-rings rest,
And sheep and lambs ascend the lit hillside,
Dear, of your charity, speak low, step soft,
Pray for a sinner. Planet-like and still,
Best hearts of all are sometimes set aloft
Only to see and pass, nor yet deplore
Even Wrong itself, crowned Wrong inscrutable,
Which cannot not have been for evermore.
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