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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PREACHER, by AL-MAHDI First Line: Their shoulders you shook Last Line: Not to cut with your own? | |||
Their shoulders you shook When they parted; but they Completely forsook You, when you went away. Fine lessons you teach, But yourself do not school; Grand sermons you preach, And remain still a fool. How long will you whet Others' swords on your stone, Continuing yet Not to cut with your own? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES LONGFELLOW by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY AN EXPOSTULATION WITH A SECTARIST, WHO INVEIGHED AGAINST THE CLERGY by JOHN BYROM ST. CECILIA'S HYMN by JOHN BYROM THE FAIRY THRALL by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4 by THOMAS CAMPION REASON. THE USE OF IT IN DIVINE MATTERS by ABRAHAM COWLEY |
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