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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROMETHEUS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: All day beneath the bleak indifferent skies
Last Line: Quick fire enough to set his world alight.
Subject(s): Fire
First Line: All day beneath the bleak indifferent skies
Last Line: Quick fire enough to set his world alight.
Subject(s): Fire
All day beneath the bleak, indifferent skies,
Broken and blind, a shivering bag of bones,
He trudges over icy paving stones,
And "Matches! Matches! Matches! Matches!" cries.
And now beneath the dismal, dripping night
And shadowed by a deeper night, he stands:
And yet he holds within his palsied hands
Quick fire enough to set his world alight.
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