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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...ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD: PASTORAL 3. THE HAPPY COUNTRYMAN by NICHOLAS BRETON THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL MESSMATES by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT THE CAP AND BELLS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE EMANCIPATION OF HIS MISTRESS' PERFECTIONS by FRANCIS BEAUMONT FOR NOEL (WHERE A GATE SWINGS EITHER WAY) by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL |
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