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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TYRANNY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poet's Biography First Line: This one I feared is powerless become Last Line: The taunt of silence takes my life -- my life. Subject(s): Fear; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators | |||
THIS One I feared is powerless become. Shut lids conceal the leer, the lips are dumb, And the satiric laugh, that used to scare Delight away, is silent. Yes, I dare Consider him disabled, vincible. And yet, as though I were responsible, My will to blame for keeping him in bonds Of unrelenting frost, I fear, I fear Him still. This mould, marmoreal, austere, Assumed in death, needs love to read it, yes, Needs love. For love to the frail flesh responds, And pities even cruelty, when strife Has nurtured it. But sleeping powerless, Of all reproach or pardon unaware -- It is as though my love were lying there. The taunt of silence takes my life -- my life. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES by CAROLYN KIZER EPITAPH ON A TYRANT by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C. by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS AN EPISTLE TO CURIO by MARK AKENSIDE BEYOND THE BARS by GEORGE E. BOWEN |
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