Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels | ||||||||
Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep To corners out of honest sight; We shall not be so poor to keep One thought of envy or despite. But know that in sad surety when Your sullen will betrays this earth To sorrows of contagion, then Beelzebub renews his birth. When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird's abiding-place, You massacre a million dreams And cast your spittle in God's face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE by ANDRE BRETON AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI by NORMAN DUBIE THE VIOLENT SPACE by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT AN OLD WHOREHOUSE by MARY OLIVER CHICAGO CABARET by KENNETH REXROTH FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE by KENNETH REXROTH HARRISON STREET COURT by CARL SANDBURG |
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