Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 22, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unblest discovery of an age too real Last Line: A beauty throbbing to his own heart's throb. | ||||||||
Unblest discovery of an age too real! They needed not the beauty of the Earth, Who held Heaven's hope for their supreme ideal, And found in worlds unseen a better birth. What to the eye of faith were the hills worth, The voiceless forests, the unpeopled coasts, The wildernesses void of sentient mirth? In death men praise thee not, Thou Lord of Hosts! But when faith faltered, when the hope grew dim, And Heaven was hid with phantoms of despair, And Man stood trembling on destruction's brim, Then turned he to the Earth, and found her fair; His home, his refuge, which no doubt could rob, A beauty throbbing to his own heart's throb. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 112. GIBRALTAR by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 55. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 60. FAREWELL TO JULIET (9) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 88. A DAY IN SUSSEX by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE OLD SQUIRE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A BALLAD OF THE HEATHER by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CHAUNT IN PRAISE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CUCKOO SONG by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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