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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 38, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw one sitting on a kingly throne Last Line: The thing that is, and shall be, and has been. | |||
I saw one sitting on a kingly throne, A man of age, whom Time had touched with white; White were his brows, and white his vestment shone, And white the childhood of his lips with light, Only his eyes gleamed masterful and bright, Holding the secrets shut of worlds unknown, And in his hand the sceptre lay of might, To bind and loose all souls beneath the sun. Where is the manhood, where the Godhood here? The weak things of the world confound the wise. Here is all weakness, let us cast out fear. Here is all strength. Ah, screen me from those eyes, The terrible eyes of Him who sees unseen The thing that is, and shall be, and has been. | 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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