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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLIGHT, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a lovely thing Last Line: But I hear the beating of dead boughs. | |||
I have seen a lovely thing Stark before a ship of weather: The tree that was so wistful after spring, Beating barren twigs together. The birds that came there one by one, The sensuous leaves that used to sway And whisper there at night, all are gone; Each has vanished in its way. And this whip is on my heart. There is no sound that it allows, No little song that I may start But I hear the beating of dead boughs. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901 by EDWIN MARKHAM THE DINKEY-BIRD by EUGENE FIELD HARRY PLOUGHMAN by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE WITCH IN THE GLASS by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT PIRATE STORY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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