Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 31, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, italy is wise, a cultured prude Last Line: Saw henry kneel in tears at peter's foot? Subject(s): Italy; Italians | ||||||||
Yes, Italy is wise, a cultured prude, Stored with all maxims of a statelier age; These are her lessons for our northern blood, With its dark Saxon madness and Norse rage. With these she tempers us and renders sage, As long ago she stayed the barbarous flood Surging against her, and her heritage Snatched from the feet of that brute multitude. Calmly she waits us. What to her shall be Our fevers of to-day, who erewhile knew Cæsar's ambitions? What our pruriency, Who saw Rome sacked by the lewd Vandal crew? What our despair, who, while a world stood mute, Saw Henry kneel in tears at Peter's foot? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL by RICHARD HOWARD TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES by JAN HELLER LEVI JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW by LISEL MUELLER HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED by BASIL BUNTING FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1 by JOHN CIARDI ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT 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 |
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