Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE KNIGHT IN PRISON, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)


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First Line: Wearily, drearily / half the day long
Last Line: Over my wrong.
Variant Title(s): In Prison
Subject(s): Soldiers


Wearily, drearily,
Half the day long,
Flap the great banners
High over the stone;
Strangely and eerily
Sounds the wind's song,
Bending the banner-poles.

While, all alone,
Watching the loophole's spark,
Lie I, with life all dark,
Feet tethered, hands fettered
Fast to the stone,
The grim wall, square lettered
With prisoned men's groan.

Still strain the banner-poles
Through the wind's song
Westward the banner rolls
Over my wrong.





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