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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FUTILITY (FOR THE INFORMATION OF PENOLOGISTS AND SOCIOLOGISTS), by DANTE CACICI First Line: O desolate waste of body and of mind Last Line: There dwell these three: deceit, distrust, disdain! | |||
O desolate waste of body and of mind, O myriad-celled distiller of hate; Whose task it is to fuse the bonds that bind This thwarted throng in shuffling felon's gait: Lift up your clanging cry of steel on steel! And stamp upon the consciousness of men, (Since Right is pawned, and Reason men congeal), One ringing truth, that wells from penal fen: Proclaim to all that WE, the erring throng, Who pace these halls of hell in senseless round, Deny their reformation's futile song! For none reform where men with bars are bound! For where your lies are said by men to reign, There dwell these three: deceit, distrust, disdain! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROSE AND THE GAUNTLET by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) SONG TOURNAMENT: NEW STYLE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A PRAYER by WARREN K. BILLINGS MONT DE CASSEL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SHEPHERD by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A FABLE FOR POETS by BERTON BRALEY THE JAY WALKER by BERTON BRALEY |
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