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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit passed before me: I beheld Last Line: Heedless and blind to wisdom's wasted light!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology | |||
FROM JOB A SPIRIT pass'd before me: I beheld The face of immortality unveil'd -- Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine -- And there it stood, -- all formless -- but divine: Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake; And as my damp hair stiffen'd, thus it spake: 'Is man more just than God? Is man more pure Than he who deems even Seraphs insecure? Creatures of clay -- vain dwellers in the dust! The moth survives you, and are ye more just? Things of a day! you wither ere the night, Heedless and blind to Wisdom's wasted light!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A FRAGMENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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