Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: INGRATITUDE, by ANNA SEWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ingratitude, how deadly is the smart Last Line: Drags the loose knee and intermitting step. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness | ||||||||
INGRATITUDE, how deadly is the smart Thou giv'st, inhabiting the form we love! How light compared all other sorrows prove! Thou shed'st a night of woe -- from whence depart The gentle beams of patience, that the heart Midst lesser ills illume. Thy victims rove, Unquiet as the ghost that haunts the grove Where murder spilt the life-blood. O! thy dart Kills more than life -- ev'n all that makes it dear; Till we 'the sensible of pain' would change For frenzy, that defies the bitter tear; Or wish in kindred callousness to range Where moon-eyed Idiocy, with fallen lip, Drags the loose knee and intermitting step. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INGRATITUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH INGRATITUDE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES INGRATITUDE by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON THE JOURNEY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRYMAN: A DEATHBED by JOHN HAWTHORN THE STAFF AND THE SCRIP by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING by JOHN SHEFFIELD FRANCISCA DILIGENTE; MAY TO AUGUST, 1906 by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL AN OLD CAT'S DYING SOLILOQUY by ANNA SEWARD ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE SEA-SIDE .. ADDRESSED TO HONORIA SNEYD by ANNA SEWARD |
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