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Question: Here's one you may like!. It's from 1611, the year I graduated High School!.!.!.do you like it as much as I do!?
“WALKING NEXT DAY UPON THE FATAL SHORE”
from The Atheist’s Tragety
by Cyril Tourneur
Walking next day upon the fatal shore,
Among the slaughtered bodies of the men
Which the full stomached sea has cast upon
The sands, it was my unhappy chance to light
Upon a face, whose favor when it lived,
My astonished mind informed me I had seen,
He lay in’s armour, as if that had been
His coffin; and the weeping sea, like one
Whose milder temper doth lament the death
Of him who in his rage he slew, runs up
The shore, embraces him, kisses his cheek,
Goes back again, and forces up the sands
To bury him, and every time it parts
Sheds tears upon him, till at last (as if
It could no longer endure to see the man
Whom it had slain, yet loath to leave him) with
A kind of unresolved unwilling pace,
Winding her waves one in another, like
A man that folds his arms or wrings his hands
For grief, ebbed from the body, and descends
As if it would sink down into the earth,
And hide itself for shame of such a deed!.
Cyril TourneurWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I taught this play this year! A course on revenge tragedy and passions!. How about The Revenger's Tragedy (I!. 1, the very beginning)!. Author unknown, sometimes attributed to Thomas Middleton (or Tourneur)!. Much more satirical than The Atheist's Tragedy:
VINDICI
Duke, royal lecher, go, gray-hair'd adultery;
And thou his son, as impious steep'd as he;
And thou his bastard, true-begot in evil;
And thou his duchess that will do with devil:
Four ex'lent characters!. Oh, that marrowless age
Would stuff the hollow bones with damn'd desires,
And stead of heat kindle infernal fires
Within the spendthrift veins of a dry duke,
A parch'd and juiceless luxur! Oh God, one
That has scarce blood enough to live upon!
And he to riot it like a son and heir!?
Oh, the thought of that
Turns my abused heartstrings into fret!
Thou sallow picture of my poisoned love,
My study's ornament, thou shell of death,
Once the bright face of my betrothed lady,
When life and beauty naturally fill'd out
These ragged imperfections,
When two heaven-pointed diamonds were set
In those unsightly rings: then 'twas a face
So far beyond the artificial shine
Of any woman's bought complexion
That the uprightest man, if such there be,
That sin but seven times a day, broke custom
And made up eight with looking after her!.
Oh, she was able to ha' made a usurer's son
Melt all his patrimony in a kiss,
And what his father fifty years told
To have consum'd, and yet his suit been cold!
But oh, accursed palace!Www@QuestionHome@Com
If my memory serves me, the original manuscript was burned in the stove by the cook!? In any case, it's a pity he didn't write more!. And do they actually teach this in France!? In English!? Quel pays!!Www@QuestionHome@Com
It is a very powerful poem!. You kept your emotions out of if and personalized the ocean with them!. Great job!. I was THERE with you visual pictures!. Thanks for sharing!.
T!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
The first part was very horrific, till "Weeping sea!."
The next part was refined, and kind of strained!.
I'd give this poem a
7!.6/10Www@QuestionHome@Com
It's beautifully sad & very well written !.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.
Brought me walking along the shore as if i'm right thereWww@QuestionHome@Com
This is a little deeper then most poems I read but it is well written and easy to understand!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Any connection between the "AV 1611!?" Authorized Version King James Bible 1611!? Just curious!. Excellent poem by the way! *snaps both thumbs* in appreciation!. : )Www@QuestionHome@Com