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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INCURABLES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Long up and down I paced the house of pain Last Line: Where young and old and fair and foul are one. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) | |||
LONG up and down I paced the House of Pain; On their white thrones reclined the dwellers there In regal reticence and superb despair, Maimed, marred, half blotted out, as they had lain For expiation under the disdain Of Life's great, grinding car; repulsive, fair, Old, young, loud, gentle, now alike did bear That kingly quiet whereto those attain Whom Life has conquered, and whom Death has smitten With the universal Light. Their erstwhile fret Forgotten entire beneath the eternal sun, They lay and read in air the old laws written Of silence, and their souls were outward set Where young and old and fair and foul are one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A MOTIVE OUT OF LOHENGRIN by ARTHUR W. UPSON |
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