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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SCARS OF SIN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My smile is bright, my glance is free
Last Line: Scar-seam'd and crippled still.
Subject(s): Sin
First Line: My smile is bright, my glance is free
Last Line: Scar-seam'd and crippled still.
Subject(s): Sin
MY smile is bright, my glance is free,
My voice is calm and clear;
Dear friend, I seem a type to thee
Of holy love and fear.
But I am scann'd by eyes unseen,
And these no saint surround;
They mete what is by what has been,
And joy the lost is found.
Erst my good Angel shrank to see
My thoughts and ways of ill;
And now he scarce dare gaze on me,
Scar-seam'd and crippled still.
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