Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 22. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have faltered more or less Last Line: And to my dead heart run them in! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Apathy; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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