Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
In Freiburg station, waiting for a train, I saw a Bishop in puce gloves go by. Now God may thunder furious from the sky, Shattering all my glory into pain, And joy turn stinking rotten, hope be vain, Night fall on little laughters, little loves, And better Bishops don more glorious gloves, While I do down in darkness; what care I? There is one memory God can never break. There is one splendour more than all the pain, There is one secret that shall never die, Star-crowned I stand and sing, for that hour's sake. In Freiburg station, waiting for a train, I saw a Bishop with puce gloves go by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING 1914: 1. PEACE by RUPERT BROOKE |
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