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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...SUMTER by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH FEARS IN SOLITUDE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE TRUTH by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE FINDING OF THE LYRE by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 36. FEAR HAS CAST OUT LOVE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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