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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAMENT FOR GAZA, by RICHARD HUGHES Poet Analysis First Line: How can I tell it? Last Line: While gaza mocks. | |||
HOW can I tell it? I saw a thing That I did not find strange In my visioning. A flawless tall mirror, Glass dim and green; And a tall, dim figure There was between: Pale, so pale her face As veils of thin water? And her eyes water-pale, And the moonlight on her; And she was dying, dying; She combed her long hair, And the crimson blood ran In the fine gold there. She was dying, dying... And in her perfect eye No terror lurked; not pity That she should so die. You who listen, pity Gaza, this poor city; For now the rocks, And the blind god's hands Grope at the pillars where he stands: While Gaza mocks, While Gaza mocks. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE JUMPING BEAN by RICHARD HUGHES GOAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SONNET TO A FRIEND by BERNARD BARTON S. MATTHIAS by JOSEPH BEAUMONT CLARE'S GHOST by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN LAMENT FOR PIONEERS by VERNE BRIGHT |
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