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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BAYARD-UP-TO-DATE, by D. SANIAL GILL First Line: Defeat!...And how shall I lift this heel Last Line: Inflaming the mass that would hold it dead! | |||
Defeat!... and how shall I lift this heel From the burning heart of these things I feel! -- No -- felt till now that they lie as dead Beneath the heft of this heel of lead. Defeat? the heft of this leaden heel? Watch out! the fire of these things I feel Is the current against resistance ahead Inflaming the mass that would hold it dead! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GAUGE OF THE GREAT (TO MADAME CURIE) by D. SANIAL GILL STEAL NOT THE DREAM! by D. SANIAL GILL THE ASSAULT HEROIC by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES AN ENGLISH MOTHER by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 30 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE DEATH-BED by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (1) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS PERSISTENCY OF POETRY by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE WITHERED ROSE by PHILIP AYRES WARPED FLOWER by SHEILA BARBOUR |
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