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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PUNISHED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish
Last Line: And make a nightmare of the solitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Corpses; Graves; Punishment; Sin; Cadavers; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish
Last Line: And make a nightmare of the solitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Corpses; Graves; Punishment; Sin; Cadavers; Tombs; Tombstones
Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish,
Not they who, while sad years go by them, in
The sunless cells of lonely prisons languish,
Do suffer fullest penalty for sin.
'T is they who walk the highways unsuspected
Yet with grim fear forever at their side,
Who hug the corpse of some sin undetected,
A corpse no grave or coffin-lid can hide --
'T is they who are in their own chambers haunted
By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude,
And sit down, uninvited and unwanted,
And make a nightmare of the solitude.
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