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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMPASSION, by ELIZABETH WINSTON SHEEHAN First Line: The master, journeying up from jericho Last Line: Blind bartimaeus crying to that one. | |||
The Master, journeying up from Jericho, Was quick to heed and still the piteous cry Of one, long blind, who heard him passing night. Now this was many hundred years ago, But how that beggar cried the folk may know Who walk our streets; for, urging all to try Hot peanuts, old Blind Jerry stumbles by -- A ragged hero, struggling with his woe. While fumbling with his pouch and small tin can, His blinking, upturned eyes appear to pray, "Have mercy on me, Jesus, David's Son!" And buying peanuts of that old black man, The happy-hearted children still today Blind Bartimaeus crying to That One. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SURFACES AND MASKS; 3 by CLARENCE MAJOR DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MILTON'S PRAYER [OF PATIENCE, OR, IN BLINDNESS] by ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 63 by PHILIP SIDNEY THE PASSERS BY by AL-RADI BILLAH TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON |
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