Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Ad Se Ipsum Comments

Rating: 2.7

DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,
When you first girded for this arduous track,
And under various whimsical pretexts
Endowed another with your damned defects,
...
Read full text

Robert Louis Stevenson
COMMENTS
Georgios Venetopoulos 17 September 2014

A nice poem that starts arrhythmic-ally on the 1st line but continues to become a decent Iambic pentameter.

0 0 Reply
* Sunprincess * 09 March 2014

Could you have dreamed in your despondent vein That the kind God would make your path so plain? Non nobis, domine! O, may He still Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill!

1 0 Reply
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Edinburgh / Scotland
Close
Error Success