Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Bartimeus Grown Old Comments

Rating: 3.3

YEA, I am he that dwelt beside this tomb.
I was a child. God smote me from the sun.
A little while, I had forgot to run
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Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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Shaun Cronick 03 June 2020

Tenderness and frailty wonderfully expressed in a quaint well written poem. A poem to make you hopefully stop and think, then reflect on.

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Elizabeth Padillo Olesen 12 August 2012

Passionate way of writing about the old Bartimeus. The poet is able to put himself in the shoes of this old man and feel his sorrow and hope. Good reminder of the coming old age of everyone.

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Shaun Cronick 03 June 2020

I believe you mean herself rather than himself.

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Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Gunnersbury, London
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