Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard task! Exclaim the undisciplined, to lean Last Line: She scans the future with the eye of gods. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions | ||||||||
HARD task! exclaim the undisciplined, to lean On Patience coupled with such slow endeavour, That long-lived servitude must last for ever. Perish the grovelling few, who, prest between Wrongs and the terror of redress, would wean Millions from glorious aims. Our chains to sever Let us break forth in tempest now or never! -- What, is there then no space for golden mean And gradual progress? -- Twilight leads to day, And, even within the burning zones of earth, The hastiest sunrise yields a temperate ray; The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE WE WHO WERE EXECUTED by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ A SEMI-REVOLUTION by ROBERT FROST L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION by KENNETH REXROTH HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI by KAREN SWENSON TABLEAUX VIVANTS; NAPLES, 1790 by ELAINE TERRANOVA A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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