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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN ON A MARBLE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's something bigger Last Line: Was only a game at taw. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines | |||
The world's something bigger, But just of this figure And speckled with mountains and seas; Your heroes are overgrown schoolboys Who scuffle for empires and toys, And kick the poor ball as they please. Now Caesar, now Pompey, gives law; And Pharsalia's plain, Though heaped with the slain, Was only a game at taw. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON NOTES FOR AN ELEGY by WILLIAM MEREDITH THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND A SONG FOR HEROES by EDWIN MARKHAM AFTER THE BROKEN ARM by RON PADGETT PRELUDE; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR by WALLACE STEVENS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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