Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: POVERTY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld thee, a lithe mountain maid Last Line: Why scourge forevermore god's beauteteous earth? Subject(s): Poverty | ||||||||
ONCE I beheld thee, a lithe mountain maid, Embrowned by wholesome toils in lusty air; Whose clear blood, nurtured by strong, primitive cheer, Through Amazonian veins, flowed unafraid. Broad-breasted, pearly-teethed, thy pure breath strayed, Sweet as deep-uddered kine's curled in the rare Bright spaces of thy lofty atmosphere, O'er some rude cottage in a fir-grown glade. Now, of each brave ideal virtue stripped, O Poverty! I behold thee as thou art, A ruthless hag, the image of woeful dearth Or brute despair, gnawing its own starved heart. Thou ravening wretch! fierce-eyed and monster-lipped, Why scourge forevermore God's beauteteous earth? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WEALTH OF THE DESTITUTE by DENISE LEVERTOV EMPTY PITCHFORKS by THOMAS LUX FUNERAL SERVICE by EVE MERRIAM A SMALL COUNTRY by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA DOCUMENTAL by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA NOTES ON POVERTY by HAYDEN CARRUTH SONG OF TWO CROWS by HAYDEN CARRUTH PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES by JOHN CIARDI AT LAST WE KILLED THE ROACHES by LUCILLE CLIFTON A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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