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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up and lift your hand and bless Last Line: But most to alcibiades. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hunchbacks | |||
Hunchback. Stand up and lift your hand and bless A man that finds great bitterness In thinking of his lost renown. A Roman Caesar is held down Under this hump. Saint. God tries each man According to a different plan. I shall not cease to bless because I lay about me with the taws That night and morning I may thrash Greek Alexander from my flesh, Augustus Caesar, and after these That great rogue Alcibiades. Hunchback. To all that in your flesh have stood And blessed, I give my gratitude, Honoured by all in their degrees, But most to Alcibiades. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HUNCHBACK by JOHN PEALE BISHOP EMBLEMS OF EXILE by THOMAS MCGRATH I AM A HUNCHBACK by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HUNCHBACK by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR. DEFORMED TRANSFORMED; A DRAMA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON SONNET: 66. SONNET TO GATH by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY HUNCHBACK OF DUGBE by WOLE SOYINKA SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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