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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTIFUL CITY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion
Last Line: Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
First Line: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion
Last Line: Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
BEAUTIFUL city, the centre and crater of European confusion,
O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity,
How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution
Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!
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