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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry
Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!"
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520)
First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry
Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!"
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520)
THE Baptist might have been ordained to cry
Forth from the towers of that huge Pile, wherein
His Father served Jehovah; but how win
Due audience, how for aught but scorn defy
The obstinate pride and wanton revelry
Of the Jerusalem below, her sin
And folly, if they with united din
Drown not at once mandate and prophecy?
Therefore the Voice spake from the Desert, thence
To Her, as to her opposite in peace,
Silence, and holiness, and innocence,
To Her and to all Lands its warning sent,
Crying with earnestness that might not cease,
"Make straight a highway for the Lord -- repent!"
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