Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 18, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore do thou at least arise and warn Last Line: Plead thou man's rights, clean-handed as of old. | ||||||||
Therefore do thou at least arise and warn, Not folded in thy mantle, a blind seer, But naked in thy anger, and new-born, As in the hour when thy voice sounded clear To the world's slaves, and tyrants quaked for fear. Thou hadst a message then, a word of scorn, First for thyself, thy own crimes' challenger, And next for those who withered in thy dawn. An hundred years have passed since that fair day, And still the world cries loud, in its desire, That right is wronged, and force alone has sway. What profit are they, thy guns' tongues of fire? Nay, leave to England her sad creed of gold; Plead thou Man's rights, clean-handed as of old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 112. GIBRALTAR by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 55. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 60. FAREWELL TO JULIET (9) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 88. A DAY IN SUSSEX by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE OLD SQUIRE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A BALLAD OF THE HEATHER by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CHAUNT IN PRAISE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CUCKOO SONG by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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