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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: ON A FAMILY PICTURE, by THOMAS EDWARDS Poet's Biography First Line: When pensive on that portraiture I gaze Last Line: Single, unpropped, and nodding to my fall. Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Relatives | |||
When pensive on that portraiture I gaze, Where my four brothers round about me stand, And four fair sisters smile with graces bland, The goodly monument of happier days; And think how soon insatiate Death, who preys On all, has cropped the rest with ruthless hand; While only I survive of all that band, Which one chaste bed did to my father raise; It seems that like a column left alone, The tottering remnant of some splendid fane, 'Scaped from the fury of the barbarous Gaul, And wasting Time, which has the rest o'erthrown; Amidst our house's ruins I remain Single, unpropped, and nodding to my fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT ELLA MAE by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES LIZARDS AND SNAKES by ANTHONY HECHT THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: I LOVE by LYN HEJINIAN CHILD ON THE MARSH by ANDREW HUDGINS MY MOTHER'S HANDS by ANDREW HUDGINS PLAYING DEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS THE GLASS HAMMER by ANDREW HUDGINS INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA by LYNDA HULL ON THE EDITION OF MR. POPE'S WORKS WITH A COMMENTARY & NOTES by THOMAS EDWARDS |
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