Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHO ARE YOU, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you who go about to save them that are lost Last Line: Arise, then, and become a savior. Subject(s): Children; Childhood | ||||||||
WHO are you who go about to save them that are lost? Are you saved yourself? Do you not know that who would save his own life must lose it? Are you then one of the 'lost'? Be sure, very sure, that each one of these can teach you as much as, probably more than, you can teach them. Have you then sat humbly at their feet, and waited on their lips that they should be the first to speakand been reverent before these childrenwhom you so little understand? Have you dropped into the bottomless pit from between yourself and them all hallucination of superiority, all flatulence of knowledge, every shred of abhorrence and loathing? Is it equal, is it free as the wind between you? Could you be happy receiving favors from one of the most despised of these? Could you be yourself one of the lost? Arise, then, and become a savior. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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