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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE YOUNG CARPENTER, by AL-RUSAFI First Line: When I was told he had been learning Last Line: When they were branches on a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Rusafi, Muhammad Ibn Ghalib Al- | |||
When I was told he had been learning To be a carpenter, I said, 'Perchance he learned his craft by turning His eyes, to turn a fellow's head!' Unhappy boughs! They'll soon be rueing He chose to chop them, this fine spring, For some are singled out for hewing, And some are marked for hammering. Converted to a wooden block! It's A just reward for roguery And ever plucking at his pockets When they were branches on a tree. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WEAVER'S APPRENTICE by AL-RUSAFI LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI ODE TO BEAUTY by RALPH WALDO EMERSON LESSER EPISTLES: TO A YOUNG LADY WITH SOME LAMPREYS by JOHN GAY THE SONG OF A HEATHEN by RICHARD WATSON GILDER A SLEEPLESS NIGHT by ALFRED AUSTIN WILL O' THE WISP by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ARS GUBERNANDI by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB THE RITTER BANN by THOMAS CAMPBELL OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 14. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE TENTH EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION |
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