Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PROPHESY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High deeds, o germans, are to come from you Last Line: First open traitor to the german name! Subject(s): Germany | ||||||||
HIGH deeds, O Germans, are to come from you! Thus in your books the record shall be found, "A watchword was pronounced, a potent sound -- ARMINIUS! -- all the people quaked like dew Stirred by the breeze; they rose, a Nation, true, True to herself -- the mighty Germany, She of the Danube and the Northern Sea, She rose, and off at once the yoke she threw. All power was given her in the dreadful trance; Those new-born Kings she withered like a flame." -- Woe to them all! but heaviest woe and shame To that Bavarian who could first advance His banner in accursed league with France, First open traitor to the German name! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF POSTWAR GERMAN POETRY by LISEL MUELLER A GERMAN REQUIEM by JAMES FENTON THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET by ALBERT GORTON GREENE THE BOOK OF YOLEK by ANTHONY HECHT MEN AND BOYS by KARL THEODORE KORNER BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON KATHE KOLLWITZ by MURIEL RUKEYSER A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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