Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CERTAIN PEOPLE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As puritans they prominently wax Last Line: Charged with an axe nigh on the occiput. Subject(s): Puritans | ||||||||
As Puritans they prominently wax, And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks, They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks. But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks When Peace another door in them unlocks, Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe. Graceless they are when gone to frivolousness, Fearing the God they flout, the God they glut. They need their pious exercises less Than schooling in the Pleasures: fair belief That these are devilish only to their thief, Charged with an Axe nigh on the occiput. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT by ANNE BRADSTREET BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN by ANNE BRADSTREET CONTEMPLATIONS by ANNE BRADSTREET LONGING FOR HEAVEN by ANNE BRADSTREET SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666 by ANNE BRADSTREET THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK by ANNE BRADSTREET THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT by ANNE BRADSTREET THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE by ANNE BRADSTREET THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS by ANNE BRADSTREET DIRGE IN WOODS by GEORGE MEREDITH |
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