Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLIGHT, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a lovely thing Last Line: But I hear the beating of dead boughs. | ||||||||
I have seen a lovely thing Stark before a ship of weather: The tree that was so wistful after spring, Beating barren twigs together. The birds that came there one by one, The sensuous leaves that used to sway And whisper there at night, all are gone; Each has vanished in its way. And this whip is on my heart. There is no sound that it allows, No little song that I may start But I hear the beating of dead boughs. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONTRA MORTEM: THE TREES by HAYDEN CARRUTH RAHEL TO VARNHAGEN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON PSALM 126 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE BRITAIN'S DAUGHTER by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A DREAM by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HEY FOR A LASS WI' A TOCHER by ROBERT BURNS THE WORLD'S DESIRE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 66 by BLISS CARMAN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY LAKE WACHUSETT by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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