Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 26. APOLOGY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not utterly unworthy to endure Last Line: Than the bare axe more luminous and keen. | ||||||||
NOT utterly unworthy to endure Was the supremacy of crafty Rome; Age after age to the arch of Christendom Aerial keystone haughtily secure; Supremacy from Heaven transmitted pure, As many hold; and, therefore, to the tomb Pass, some through fire -- and by the scaffold some -- Like saintly Fisher, and unbending More. "Lightly for both the bosom's lord did sit "Upon his throne;" unsoftened, undismayed By aught that mingled with the tragic scene Of pity or fear: and More's gay genius played With the inoffensive sword of native wit, Than the bare axe more luminous and keen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH BUONAPARTE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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