Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comely and capable one of our race Last Line: Brought to derision! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty | ||||||||
COMELY and capable one of our race, Posing there in your gown of grace, Plain, yet becoming; Could subtlest breast Ever have guessed What was behind that innocent face, Drumming, drumming! Would that your Causer, ere knoll your knell For this riot of passion, might deign to tell Why, since It made you Sound in the germ, It sent a worm To madden Its handiwork, when It might well Not have assayed you, Not have implanted, to your deep rue, The Clytaemnestra spirit in you, And with purblind vision Sowed a tare In a field so fair, And a thing of symmetry, seemly to view, Brought to derision! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NEGATIVES by PHILIP LEVINE ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN by ARTHUR SZE TWO FUNERALS: 2. by LOUIS UNTERMEYER BALLADE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED by FRANCOIS VILLON EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM by FRANCOIS VILLON VILLON'S EPITAPH by FRANCOIS VILLON AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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