Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXPOSTULATION, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Poet's Biography First Line: How long, great god, a wretched captive here Last Line: Unthinking sots: kind heaven let me be gone, %I'm tired, I'm sick of this dull farce's repetition | ||||||||
1 How long, great God, a wretched captive here, Must I these hated marks of bondage wear? How long shall these uneasy chains controul The willing flights of my impatient Soul? How long shall her most pure intelligence Be strain'd through an infectious screen of gross, corrupted sence? When shall I leave this darksome house of clay; And to a brighter mansion wing away? There's nothing here my thoughts to entertain, But one Tyr'd revolution o're again: The Sun and Stars observe their wonted round, The streams their former courses keep: No Novelty is found. The same curst acts of false fruition o're, The same wild hopes and wishes as before; Do men for this so fondly life caress, (That airy huss of splendid emptiness?) Unthinking sots: kind Heaven let me be gone, I'm tyr'd, I'm sick of this dull Farce's repetition. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LAPLANDER'S SONG TO HIS MISTRESS by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE DESPAIR by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE TO MADAM S---AT THE COURT by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE CACHE LA POUDRE by JAMES GALVIN THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER by JAMES GALVIN THE CROCODILE, FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE CHURCH OF A DREAM; TO BERNHARD BERENSON by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON |
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