Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect | ||||||||
HERE once engaged the stranger's view Young Friendship's record simply traced; Few were her words, -- but yet, though few, Resentment's hand the line defaced. Deeply she cut -- but not erased, The characters were still so plain, That Friendship once return'd and gazed, -- Till Memory hail'd the words again. Repentance placed them as before, Forgiveness join'd her gentle name; So fair the inscription seem'd once more, That Friendship thought it still the same. Thus might the Record now have been; But, ah, in spite of Hope's endeavour Or Friendship's tears, Pride rush'd between, And blotted out the line for ever. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROCK AND HAWK by ROBINSON JEFFERS GODOLPHIN HORNE, WHO WAS CURSED WITH THE SIN OF PRIDE, AND BECAME A BOOT-BLACK by HILAIRE BELLOC PRIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1 by KENNETH REXROTH PRIMER LESSON by CARL SANDBURG HAEC FABULA DOCET by ROBERT FROST VICTIM OF HIMSELF by MARVIN BELL ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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