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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEPENTHE: THE UNICORN, by GEORGE DARLEY Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! In the mute, mid wilderness Last Line: Far athwart his lair I run. Subject(s): Pride; Unicorns; Wilderness; Self-esteem; Self-respect | |||
Lo! in the mute mid wilderness, What wondrous Creature, of no kind, His burning lair doth largely press, Gaze fixt, and feeding on the wind? His fell is of the desert dye, And tissue adust, dun-yellow and dry, Compact of living sands; his eye Black luminary, soft and mild, With its dark lustre cools the wild. From his stately forehead springs, Piercing to heaven, a radiant horn! Lo, the compeer of lion kings, The steed self-armed, the Unicorn! Ever heard of, never seen, With a main of sands between Him and approach; his lonely pride To course his arid arena wide, Free as the hurricane, or lie here, Lord of his couch as his career! Wherefore should this foot profane His sanctuary, still domain? Let me turn, ere eye so bland Perchance be fire-shot, like heaven's brand, To wither my boldness! Northward now, Behind the white star on his brow Glittering straight against the Sun, Far athwart his lair I run. | 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 |
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