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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MARSEILLAISE, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poet's Biography First Line: What means this mighty chant, wherein its wail Last Line: Sworn to dethrone the gods unjust from heaven. Subject(s): Revolutions | |||
What means this mighty chant, wherein its wail Of some intolerable woe, grown strong With sense of more intolerable wrong Swells to a stern victorious march--a gale Of vengeful wrath? What mean the faces pale, The fierce resolve, the ecstatic pangs along Life's fiery ways, the demon thoughts which throng The gates of awe, when these wild notes assail The sleeping of our souls? Hear ye no more Than the mad foam of revolution's leaven, Than a roused people's throne-o'erwhelming tread? Hark! 'tis man's spirit thundering on the shore Of iron fate; the tramp of Titans dread, Sworn to dethrone the Gods unjust from Heaven. | 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 |
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