Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BETTER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: Better for sin to dwell from heaven apart Last Line: Were deeper hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
Better for sin to dwell from heaven apart In foulest night Than on its lidless eyeballs feel the dart Of torturing light. Better to pine in floods of sulphurous fire Than far above Behold the bliss of satisfied desire, Nor taste thereof. Yea, love is lord, e'en where the powers of pain Undying dwell; Defiled, in spotless glory to remain Were deeper hell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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