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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S, by GEORGE BANCROFT DUREN First Line: Where but so short a while before had stood Last Line: As that scarred cross mute pointing toward the sky. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals | |||
Where but so short a while before had stood The modest church in sacred silentness, Now ruins with their grim and blackened dress Bear the unhappy sign of widowhood: Smoke circles from a small charred cross of wood While altar cloths, strewn with the carelessness Of entrails from the sacrifice express A sadness that no other ruin could. Slowly the priest draws near God's house of prayer With eyes that tell what lips refuse to speak. A curious crowd breaks way to let him by For in his face has come a great despair As if his hopes had turned as sere and bleak As that scarred cross mute pointing toward the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA DECEPTION PASS; FOR JUDY AND MARK KAWASAKI by KAREN SWENSON TRAFALGAR SQUARE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE CROCODILE, FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON |
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