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The Tidings

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941

(Easter 1916)

Censored lies that mimic truth…
Censored truth as pale as fear…
My heart is like a rousing bell -
And but the dead to hear…

My heart is like a mother bird,
Circling ever higher,
And the nest-tree rimmed about
By a forest fire…

My heart is like a lover foiled
By a broken stair -
They are fighting to-night in Sackville Street,
And I am not there!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 24, 2023

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Scheme XXXX XAXA XBXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 366
Words 72
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde feminist and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences She along with other political poets of the early Modernist period has been coming under increasing critical scrutiny at the beginning of the twenty-first century more…

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