Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NAVVY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from mansion and from mart Last Line: And god be good to you and me. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise | ||||||||
REMOTE from mansion and from mart, Beyond our outer, furrowed fields One with the rock he cleaves apart, One with the weary pick he wields Bowed with his weight of discontent, Beneath the heavens sagging gray, His steaming shoulders stark and bent, He drags his joyless years away. For dreamy dames with haughty eyes, And cunning men with soft white hands Have offered you in sacrifice Lone outcast of the outcast lands. For all the furs that keep them warm, For all the food that keeps them fit, Through all the years they 've wrought you harm, And take a churlish pride in it. Brutish we've hashed it far and near, I've shared your woe and dull despair; We've sung our songs, and none to hear, And told our wrongs, and none to care. Some day how soon we may not tell We'll rend the riven fetters free. Till then, may heaven guard you well, And God be good to you and me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX |
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