Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIA DOLOROSA: 1. TRANSFIGURATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But half a man's days - and his days were nights Last Line: And eyes that meet a brother's now not blind. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The | ||||||||
BUT half a man's days -- and his days were nights. What hearts were ours who loved him, should we pray That night would yield him back to darkling day, Sweet death that soothes, to life that spoils and smites? For now, perchance, life lovelier than the light's That shed no comfort on his weary way Shows him what none may dream to see or say Ere yet the soul may scale those topless heights Where death lies dead, and triumph. Haply there Already may his kindling eyesight find Faces of friends -- no face than his more fair -- And first among them found of all his kind Milton, with crowns from Eden on his hair, And eyes that meet a brother's now not blind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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