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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 ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM BASSE THE SPRING OF THE YEAR by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM INSTEAD OF TEARS by JOSEPH AUSLANDER FIDELIA ARGUING WITH HER SELF ON THE DIFFICULTY FINDING TRUE RELIGION by JANE BARKER TO THE HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LADY, THE LADY TASBURGH by WILLIAM BASSE SHANAHAN'S OULD QUEEN by GERALD BRENNAN |
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