The stiffened brain is reeling With pushing against the blood That being thickened with feeling, Is rigid as wood. The blood is an obstinate wall: Resisting sudden shock, Resisting gradual pull, It stands like rock. The walls of Jericho Once melted to the ground. The steady brain must go Seven times round. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STIRRUP-CUP by LOUIS UNTERMEYER HAMATREYA by RALPH WALDO EMERSON BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON THE LAST LANDLORD by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN TO DR. PRIESTLEY. DEC. 29, 1792 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD BROADWAY IN THE OZARKS: NIGHT by BETTY CORBETT BASSETT |