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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AWAKE!, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! The day is coming now Last Line: Arise! We slept, nor of the peril recked. Subject(s): Injustice | |||
Awake! The day is coming now That brings the sweat of anguish to the brow Of Christians, Jews, and Pagans all! Many a token in the sky And on the earth shows it is nigh: Foretold in Holy Writ withal. The sun no longer shows His face; and treason sows His secret seeds that no man can detect; Fathers by their children are undone; The brother would the brother cheat; And the cowled monk is a deceit, Who should the way to Heaven direct; Might is right, and justice there is none. Arise! we slept, nor of the peril recked. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT LAKE DESOLATION by KENNETH REXROTH ELEGY: THE LITTLE GHOST WHO DIED FOR LOVE; FOR ALLANAH HARPER by EDITH SITWELL SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 48 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY SONNET: 66 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A HUN by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS RED FLAG by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY SONG by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE |
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