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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLIGHT, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a lovely thing Last Line: But I hear the beating of dead boughs. | |||
I have seen a lovely thing Stark before a ship of weather: The tree that was so wistful after spring, Beating barren twigs together. The birds that came there one by one, The sensuous leaves that used to sway And whisper there at night, all are gone; Each has vanished in its way. And this whip is on my heart. There is no sound that it allows, No little song that I may start But I hear the beating of dead boughs. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SMALL SELF AND THE LIBERAL SELF by JAMES GALVIN THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING PRAISE FOR AN URN; IN MEMORIAM: ERNEST NELSON by HAROLD HART CRANE ITALY SWEET TOO! by JOHN KEATS THE SABBATH MORNING by JOHN LEYDEN WILD ROSES by RHODA S. BARCLAY AN ELEGY ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURY; POISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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