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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the earth is changing. O my god! Last Line: That the earth falls asunder, being old. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Europe | |||
NOT that the earth is changing, O my God! Nor that the seasons totter in their walk,-- Not that the virulent ill of act and talk Seethes ever as a winepress ever trod,-- Not therefore are we certain that the rod Weighs in thine hand to smite thy world; though now Beneath thine hand so many nations bow, So many kings:--not therefore, O my God!-- But because Man is parcelled out in men To-day; because, for any wrongful blow, No man not stricken asks, 'I would be told Why thou dost thus;' but his heart whispers then, 'He is he, I am I.' By this we know That the earth falls asunder, being old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH: EUROPE by ANNE CARSON SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940 by NORMAN DUBIE DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS by GEOFFREY HILL DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER EUROPE A PROPHECY by WILLIAM BLAKE EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES by WALT WHITMAN TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE by WALT WHITMAN ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 11. TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND by MARK AKENSIDE THE GOLDEN AGE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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