Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A LAST LOOK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of self-love, malvolio, like an owl Last Line: Where high-strung hate and strenuous envy cease. Subject(s): Self-righteousness | ||||||||
SICK of self-love, Malvolio, like an owl That hoots the sun rerisen where starlight sank, With German garters crossed athwart thy frank Stout Scottish legs, men watched thee snarl and scowl, And boys responsive with reverberate howl Shrilled, hearing how to thee the springtime stank And as thine own soul all the world smelt rank And as thine own thoughts Liberty seemed foul. Now, for all ill thoughts nursed and ill words given Not all condemned, not utterly forgiven, Son of the storm and darkness, pass in peace. Peace upon earth thou knewest not: now, being dead, Rest, with nor curse nor blessing on thine head, Where high-strung hate and strenuous envy cease. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER by ROBERT BURNS TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: PROLOGUE by JOHN DRYDEN THE WAY OF THE WORLD by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON SELF-RIGHTOUSNESS by JOHN BYROM WHY DO I BEHAVE SO BADLY? by JAMES HARRISON A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A BALLAD OF LIFE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A CAMEO by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A CHRISTMAS CAROL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A FORSAKEN GARDEN by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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