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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BAYARD-UP-TO-DATE, by D. SANIAL GILL First Line: Defeat!...And how shall I lift this heel Last Line: Inflaming the mass that would hold it dead! | |||
Defeat!... and how shall I lift this heel From the burning heart of these things I feel! -- No -- felt till now that they lie as dead Beneath the heft of this heel of lead. Defeat? the heft of this leaden heel? Watch out! the fire of these things I feel Is the current against resistance ahead Inflaming the mass that would hold it dead! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GAUGE OF THE GREAT (TO MADAME CURIE) by D. SANIAL GILL STEAL NOT THE DREAM! by D. SANIAL GILL THE RETURN (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GEORGE MOORE by MARIANNE MOORE MERLIN'S PROPHESY by WILLIAM BLAKE SUDDEN LIGHT by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO THE SAME PURPOSE by THOMAS TRAHERNE THE UNSCARRED FIGHTER REMEMBERS FRANCE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING VERSES WRITTEN IN THE LEAVES OF AN IVORY POCKET-BOOK by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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