Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAMENT FOR GAZA, by RICHARD HUGHES Poet Analysis First Line: How can I tell it? Last Line: While gaza mocks. | ||||||||
HOW can I tell it? I saw a thing That I did not find strange In my visioning. A flawless tall mirror, Glass dim and green; And a tall, dim figure There was between: Pale, so pale her face As veils of thin water? And her eyes water-pale, And the moonlight on her; And she was dying, dying; She combed her long hair, And the crimson blood ran In the fine gold there. She was dying, dying... And in her perfect eye No terror lurked; not pity That she should so die. You who listen, pity Gaza, this poor city; For now the rocks, And the blind god's hands Grope at the pillars where he stands: While Gaza mocks, While Gaza mocks. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE JUMPING BEAN by RICHARD HUGHES WINGED MAN by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY by WILLIAM COWPER AFTER THE BATTLE (OF AUGHRIM) by THOMAS MOORE SONG OF THE ANGELS AT THE NATIVITY by NAHUM TATE THE BUTTERFLY by MARGARET AVISON A MORNING AFTER MOURNING by WILLIAM BASSE BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE MARIAN; AN OPERETTA: SONG (2) by FRANCES (MOORE) BROOKE STANZAS COMPOSED DURING A THUNDERSTORM by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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