|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRUE CONQUERORS, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent)
Last Line: True conquerors o'er all the rest.
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent)
Last Line: True conquerors o'er all the rest.
Subject(s): Old Age
Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
Enough that they've survived at all -- long life's unflinching ones!
Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged
at all -- in that alone,
True conquerors o'er all the rest.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW
FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS
THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS
OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE
AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE
TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY
SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS
A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN