Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD SE IPSUM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, good-morrow! Five years back Last Line: Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Life; Trials | ||||||||
DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back, When you first girded for this arduous track, And under various whimsical pretexts Endowed another with your damned defects, Could you have dreamed in your despondent vein That the kind God would make your path so plain? Non nobis, domine! O, may He still Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED by THYLIAS MOSS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993) by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS by CAROLYN KIZER JACK KNUCKLES FALTER by KENNETH FEARING DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE WASPS: THE TRIAL OF THE DOG by ARISTOPHANES THE LAY OF MR. COLT by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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