Heres a virtual movie of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem "Rizpah" Read by his wife Emily.The poems draws from a newspaper article Tennyson had seen about the trial and execution of a young man and ot...
Heres a virtual movie of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem "Rizpah" Read by his wife Emily.The poems draws from a newspaper article Tennyson had seen about the trial and execution of a young man and other folklore and mythology. The Name Rizpah comes from old hebrew biblical text "Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah".
Entry from The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Rizpah, a poem by Tennyson, published in Ballads and Other Poems (1880), the monologue of a mother who collects the unhallowed bones of her son night by night from the foot of the gallows and buries them secretly in the churchyard.
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Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008
Rizpah.......1st 3 stanzas..
WAILING, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea— And Willys voice in the wind, O mother, come out to me. Why should he call me to-night, when he knows that I cannot go? For the downs are as bright as day, and the full moon stares at the snow.
We should be seen, my dear; they would spy us out of the town. 5 The loud black nights for us, and the storm rushing over the down, When I cannot see my own hand, but am led by the creak of the chain, And grovel and grope for my son till I find myself drenchd with the rain.
Anything fallen again? nay—what was there left to fall? I have taken them home, I have numberd the bones, I have hidden them all. 10 What am I saying? and what are you? do you come as a spy? Falls? what falls? who knows? As the tree falls so must it lie.
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