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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A PICTURE OF JERUSALEM AT THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem! And at the fatal hour Last Line: Too full of the great theme to think of praise. | |||
Jerusalem! and at the fatal hour! No need of dull and frivolous question here! No need of human agents to make clear The most tremendous act of human power! The distant cross; the rent and fallen tower; The opening graves, from which the dead uprear Their buried forms; the elemental fear, When horrid light and horrid darkness lower; All tell the holy tale: the mystery And solace of our souls. Awe-struck we gaze Oh this so mute yet eloquent history! Awe-struck and sad, at length our eyes we raise To go: -- yet oft return that scene to see, Too full of the great theme to think of praise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTIGONE by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD BRIDAL SONG by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD INFANT LOVE by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD THE FORGET-ME-NOT by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD THE MARCH OF MIND by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD THE MASQUE by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD THE MASQUE OF THE SEASONS, SELECTION by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD THE VOICE OF PRAISE by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD TO MR. LUCAS, WRITTEN WHILST SITTING TO HIM FOR MY PORTRAIT, 1828 by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD |
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