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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRAPPED, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography First Line: Chart back as best he might the way he'd come Last Line: The liveliest beast grows somewhat seedy, trapped. Subject(s): Trapping | |||
Chart back as best he might the way he'd come And not a turn but still seemed best to choose. Yet he had reached a wilderness, wherefrom He must escape or all the struggle lose. The urgency to act was thick upon him, But still he paused to place the past mistake -- Inevitable blameless by-gones stun him, His loyalties to shaping justice break. At last he saw and took, like one quite tired, The path ahead, obscure and full of stress: To see was easy, but to take required The solemn fortitude of hopelessness. His clothes are shiny now that once were napped: The liveliest beast grows somewhat seedy, trapped. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TRAPS by MARGARET M. L. MILLER TO THE RIVER TRAUN by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES FOLDS AND TRAPS by DURS GRUNBEIN MEETING TRAPPERS ON THE ROAD IN HEAVY SNOW by LI K'AI-HSIEN STAYING OVERNIGHT ON THE BANKS OF EMBROIDERED RIVER by LI K'AI-HSIEN HARE IN WINTER by MARGE PIERCY CIRCLE OF STRUGGLE by WILLIAM PITT ROOT OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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