Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WHOLE DAY THRO', IN CONTEMPT AND PITY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day thro', in contempt and pity Last Line: For all men are heroes already! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Revolutions | ||||||||
The whole day thro', in contempt and pity, I pass your houses and beat my drum, In the roar of people that go and come, In the sunlit streets of the city. Hark! do you hear the ictus coming, Mid the roar and clatter of feet? Hark! in the ebb and flow of the street Do you hear the sound of my drumming? Sun and the fluttering ribbons blind me; But still I beat as I travel the town, And still the recruits come manfully down, And the march grows long behind me. In time to the drum the feet fall steady, The feet fall steady and firm to hear, And we cry, as we march, that the goal is near, For all men are heroes already! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE WE WHO WERE EXECUTED by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ A SEMI-REVOLUTION by ROBERT FROST L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION by KENNETH REXROTH HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI by KAREN SWENSON TABLEAUX VIVANTS; NAPLES, 1790 by ELAINE TERRANOVA A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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