Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAPTIVE KNIGHT, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent I sit by the prison's high window Last Line: Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Knights & Knighthood; Prisons & Prisoners; Swords; Convicts | ||||||||
Silent I sit by the prison's high window, Where through the bars the blue heavens are breaking. Flecks in the azure, the free birds are playing; Watching them fly there, my shamed heart is aching. But on my sinful lips never a prayer, Never a song in the praise of my charmer; All I recall are far fights and old battles, My heavy sword and my old iron armor. Now in stone armor I hopelessly languish, And a stone helmet my hot head encases, This shield is proof against arrows and sword-play, And without whip, without spur, my horse races. Time is my horse, the swift-galloping charger, And for a visor this bleak prison grating, Walls of my prison are heavy stone armor; Shielded by cast-iron doors, I am waiting. Hurry, oh fast-flying Time, fly more quickly! In my new armor I faint, I am choking. I shall alight, with Death holding my stirrup, Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SECULAR GAMES by RICHARD HOWARD WHAT DID YOU SEE? by FANNY HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN WORK IN PROGRESS by CHARLES MARTIN THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED by THYLIAS MOSS A SAIL by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV |
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