Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRASHEANNA; SONNETS ON PETER BRASH, A PUBLICAN: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To goodness or greatness: to be good and die Last Line: Dejects the traveller and collects the crows. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons | ||||||||
To Goodness or Greatness: to be good and die, Or to be great and live forever great: To be the unknown Smith that saves the state And blooms unhonoured by the public eye: To be the unknown Robinson or Brown Whose piping virtues perish in the mud Or triumphing in blasphemy and blood, The imperial pirate, pickled in renown: Unfaltering BRASH the latter number chose Of this eterne antithesis: and still The flower of his immortal memory blows Where'er the spirits of the loathed repose Where'er the trophy of the gibbet hill Dejects the traveller and collects the crows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOUSE OF SILENCE by PHILIP LEVINE SPRING STREET BAR by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE DISCOVERING THE PHOTOGRAPH OF LLOYD, EARL, AND PRISCILLA by LYNN EMANUEL THE NIGHT MAN AT THE BLUE LITE by LYNN EMANUEL DRAFT OF THE SMOKY LIFE by FORREST GANDER ANY NEWS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI by ANSELM HOLLO A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
|