Poet Charles Hamilton Sorley

Charles Hamilton Sorley

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Charles Hamilton Sorley Understand Poems

  • 1.
    I have not brought my Odyssey
    With me here across the sea;
    But you'll remember, when I say
    How, when they went down Sparta way,
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  • 2.
    You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
    And no man claimed the conquest of your land.
    But gropers both through fields of thought confined
    We stumble and we do not understand.
    ...
  • 3.
    There where the rusty iron lies,
    The rooks are cawing all the day.
    Perhaps no man, until he dies,
    Will understand them, what they say.
    ...
  • 4.
    We burrowed night and day with tools of lead,
    Heaped the bank up and cast it in a ring
    And hurled the earth above. And Caesar said,
    “Why, it is excellent. I like the thing.”
    ...
Total 4 Understand Poems by Charles Hamilton Sorley

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I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
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