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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, ESQ., ON SEEING HIS PICTURE ..., by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Artist, whose hand with horror wing'd, hath torn
Last Line: Know thou the worst. So much, not more, he can.'
Subject(s): Abstinence; Caricature & Caricaturists; Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)
First Line: Artist, whose hand with horror wing'd, hath torn
Last Line: Know thou the worst. So much, not more, he can.'
Subject(s): Abstinence; Caricature & Caricaturists; Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)
ON SEEING FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS PICTURE OF 'THE BOTTLE',
IN THE COUNTRY
ARTIST, whose hand, with horror wing'd, hath torn
From the rank life of towns this leaf: and flung
The prodigy of full-blown crime among
Valleys and men to middle fortune born,
Not innocent, indeed, yet not forlorn:
Say, what shall calm us, when such guests intrude,
Like comets on the heavenly solitude?
Shall breathless glades, cheer'd by shy Dian's horn,
Cold-bubbling springs, or caves? Not so! The Soul
Breasts her own griefs: and, urg'd too fiercely, says:
'Why tremble? True, the nobleness of man
May be by man effac'd: man can control
To pain, to death, the bent of his own days.
Know thou the worst. So much, not more, he can.'
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