Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST MAN: A CROCODILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the lilied nile I saw Last Line: Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat. Subject(s): Crocodiles; Travel; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
Hard by the lilied Nile I saw A duskish-dragon stretched along, The brown habergeon of his limbs enameled With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl: And on his back there lay a young one sleeping, No bigger than a mouse; with eyes like beads, And a small fragment of its speckled egg Remaining on its harmless, pulpy snout; A thing to laugh at, as it gaped to catch The baulking merry flies. In the iron jaws Of the great devil-beast, like a pale soul Fluttering in rocky hell, lightsomely flew A snowy trochilus, wotj roseate beak Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat. | Discover our poem explanations - click here!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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