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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MANCHESTER BY NIGHT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: O'er this huge town, rife with intestine wars Last Line: As life exchanges semblances with death. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Manchester, England | |||
O'ER this huge town, rife with intestine wars, Whence as from monstrous sacrificial shrines Pillars of smoke climb heavenward, Night inclines Black brows majestical with glimmering stars. Her dewy silence soothes life's angry jars: And like a mother's wan white face, who pines Above her children's turbulent ways, so shines The moon athwart the narrow cloudy bars. Now toiling multitudes that hustling crush Each other in the fateful strife for breath And, hounded on by diverse hungers, rush Across the prostrate ones that groan beneath, Are swathed within the universal hush, As life exchanges semblances with death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE MASK OF ANARCHY; WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IN MANCHESTER by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM by GEORGE MACDONALD SANDBLAST GIRL AND THE ACID MAN by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL BOTTLES IN THE BOMBED CITY by LES A. MURRAY THE MYSTIC'S VISION by MATHILDE BLIND A CARNIVAL EPISODE by MATHILDE BLIND |
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