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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PEONAGE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: How tired the recording angel must begin
Last Line: Holding me debtor, while I live, to ill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Sin
First Line: How tired the recording angel must begin
Last Line: Holding me debtor, while I live, to ill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Sin
How tired the Recording Angel must begin
To be of setting down the same old sin,
The same old folly, year out and year in,
Since I knew how to err, against my name!
It makes me sick at heart and sore with shame
To think of that monotony of blame
For thins I fancied once that I should be
Quits with in doing; but at last I see
All that I did became a part of me,
And cannot be put from me, but must still
Remain a potent will within my will,
Holding me debtor, while I live, to ill.
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