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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 42. GUNPOWDER PLOT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree Last Line: The blood of huguenots through paris streamed. Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes | |||
FEAR hath a hundred eyes that all agree To plague her beating heart; and there is one (Nor idlest that!) which holds communion With things that were not, yet were 'meant' to be. Aghast within its gloomy cavity That eye (which sees as if fulfilled and done Crimes that might stop the motion of the sun) Beholds the horrible catastrophe Of an assembled Senate unredeemed From subterraneous Treason's darkling power: Merciless act of sorrow infinite! Worse than the product of that dismal night, When gushing, copious as a thunder-shower, The blood of Huguenots through Paris streamed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPON THE GUNPOWDER TREASON (1) by RICHARD CRASHAW UPON THE GUNPOWDER TREASON (2) by RICHARD CRASHAW UPON THE POWDER DAY by RICHARD CRASHAW EPIGRAM: TO WILLIAM, LORD MONTEAGLE by BEN JONSON |
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