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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANDROMEDA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now time's andromeda on this rock rude Last Line: With gorgon's gear and barebill, thongs and fangs. Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology) | |||
NOW Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks off by both horns of shore, Her flower, her piece of being, doomed dragon's food. Time past she has been attempted and pursued By many blows and banes; but now hears roar A wilder beast from West than all were, more Rife in her wrongs, more lawless, and more lewd. Her Perseus linger and leave her to her extremes? -- Pillowy air he treads a time and hangs His thoughts on her, forsaken that she seems, All while her patience, morselled into pangs, Mounts; then to alight disarming, no one dreams, With Gorgon's gear and barebill, thongs and fangs. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ASPECTA MEDUSA by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ANDROMEDA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH IBANT OBSCURAE by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ANDROMETA by EDWARD CARPENTER ANDROMEDA; FRAGMENT by EURIPIDES ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO HER ROCK THE GREAT NEBULA IN HER HEART by KENNETH REXROTH ABYSS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AS KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AT THE WEDDING MARCH by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS |
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