And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
Rugged beast its hour come round at last.
And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
Yeats s the second coming the 1919 poem from which the phrase originates.
What rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
The darkness drops again.
We re bringing out w b.
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
Well i dunno either but this is your fark writer s thread the somewhat delayed by election madness edition.
This poem is in the public domain.
The second coming is a poem written by irish poet w.
And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born october 29 2013october 29 2013 carolyn o halloween approaches friends and what better way to ring it in than with the scariest freakin poem in the english language.
And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle and what rough beast its hour come round at last.
The only thing not doing any slouching these days is the rough beast in w.
Yeats in 1919 first printed in the dial in november 1920 and afterwards included in his 1921 collection of verses michael robartes and the dancer.
Yeats s the second coming.
But now i know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle and what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
The darkness drops again.
But now i know.
The darkness drops again over the speaker s sight but he knows that the sphinx s twenty centuries of stony sleep have been made a nightmare by the motions of a rocking cradle and what rough beast he wonders its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
That twenty centuries of stony sleep.
Is moving its slow thighs while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
Keeping in mind the overall message of the poem the apocalypse a rocking cradle could refer to the birth of the anti christ literal and figuratively and bethlehem was the birth place of jesus christ.
Is moving its slow thighs while all about it.
Is moving its slow thighs while all about it.