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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: THE SLIGHT AND DEGENERATE NATURE OF MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful post-diluvians! From whose hearts Last Line: Grow o'er the secrets cut into their core. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race | |||
Pitiful post-diluvians! from whose hearts The print of passions by the tide of hours Is washed away for ever and for ever, As lions' footmark on the ocean sands; While we, Adam's coevals, carry in us The words indelible of buried feelings, Like the millennial trees, whose hoary barks Grow o'er the secrets cut into their core. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MUCH EARTH by PHILIP LEVINE THE SHEEP IN THE RUINS by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH THE CONQUERORS by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE MARMOZET by HILAIRE BELLOC MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH by ROBERT BLY BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF by LUCILLE CLIFTON BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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