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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AHAB AND JEZEBEL, by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING First Line: Whence came the greed of men, the war of strife Last Line: The human heart and love shall find release? | |||
Whence came the greed of men, the war of strife, That grow to murder when their fruit is ripe? From Paradise or from the damning stripe Of blood that flowed when Cain upraised the knife? From Jezebel, who envied Naboth's life, Or Ahab, coveter, whose hand would gripe Another's vineyard? Time will never wipe Away the blot of Ahab and his wife. Above old Bethlehem a lone bright star Proclaimed the coming of the Prince of Peace And hosts of angels flung their song afar, That selfishness and red, red war might cease. How long? How long till hate shall never mar The human heart and love shall find release? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEA AND THE DESERT by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING CHURCHILL'S GRAVE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON RUPERT BROOKE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON AT FREDERICKSBURG [DECEMBER 13, 1862] by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY CHARACTERS: SUSANNAH BARBAULD MARISSAL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD PINE-TREE KIN by ANNE MILLAY BREMER PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER by ROBERT BROWNING |
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