Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LION'S DEATH, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hunter old whom once the desert air Last Line: And like the lion make an end of all? Subject(s): Animals; Death; Hearts; Lions; Dead, The | ||||||||
A HUNTER old whom once the desert air And bulls' blood pricked to hunger, then he scann'd The sea beyond him and the lonely sand With sullen roaring from his rocky lair. Then like a damned soul in dire Hell's despair For the lewd pleasure of a gaping band, He came and went within a cage, his grand Rude head wall-thwarted in his pacing there. Such being his vile doom perpetual All meat and drink the savage beast put by Till his wild soul in death o'er-leapt the wall. O rebel to the world's captivity, Weak heart still caged, why wilt thou too not die And like the lion make an end of all? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A FESTIVAL by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE |
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