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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you, seated on a horse's head Last Line: The unseeing circle of funereal faces. | |||
Addressed to the Spectre of an Elderly Gentleman, recently demised, Whom the Author had once observed performing a Benevolent Office in the Vicinity of Holborn, W. C. I saw you, seated on a horse's head, While the blaspheming carter cut the traces, Obese, white-waistcoated, and newly fed, Through bland, indifferent monocle surveying The gaping circle of indifferent faces. And now, the news has come that you are dead, I see you, while they cut the tangled traces, On your own hearse's fallen horse's head, Through bland, indifferent monocle surveying The unseeing circle of funereal faces. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE LINES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON BREAKFAST by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON FLANNAN ISLE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON FOR G. by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON GERANIUMS by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON LAMENT by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RETREAT by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RUPERT BROOKE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE GORSE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE ICE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON |
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