Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GRATITUDE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If gratitude a poor man's virtue is Last Line: Which sent me forth, a broken man, but free. Subject(s): Gratitude | ||||||||
IF gratitude a poor man's virtue is, 'Tis one at least my sick soul can afford. Bankrupt I am of all youth's charities, But not of thanks. No. Thanks be to the Lord! Praise be, dear Lady of all grace, to you. You were my mediciner, my one sole friend, When the world spurned me from its retinue. And I am yours, your bond-slave to the end. How shall I tell it you? There was a time When I was sordid in my unbelief, And mocked at all things less robust than crime, A convict in my prison-house of grief. But that is past. Your pity was the key Which sent me forth, a broken man, but free. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO COUNTRIES by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO by MARY OLIVER AFTER A NOISY NIGHT by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THANK YOU FOR SAYING THANK YOU by CHARLES BERNSTEIN INVENTORY by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER) by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER 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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