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fall on your knees
Posted by: kenni (---.sympatico.ca)
Date: June 02, 2022 08:36PM

hi,
i need some help. i need to find a poem that somehow relates to Anne- marie Mcdonnalds book "Fall on your knees"
if anyone can help that would be super,
cheers,
kenni

Re: fall on your knees
Posted by: lg (---.trlck.ca.charter.com)
Date: June 02, 2022 10:04PM

Kenni, there are a couple of ways you can go with this. You can focus in on the family side of it, or the horrors of war:

Captive Dove, The
by Anne Brontė

Poor restless dove, I pity thee;
And when I hear thy plaintive moan,
I mourn for thy captivity,
And in thy woes forget mine own.
To see thee stand prepared to fly,
And flap those useless wings of thine,
And gaze into the distant sky,
Would melt a harder heart than mine.

In vain ­ in vain! Thou canst not rise:
Thy prison roof confines thee there;
Its slender wires delude thine eyes,
And quench thy longings with despair.

Oh, thou wert made to wander free
In sunny mead and shady grove,
And, far beyond the rolling sea,
In distant climes, at will to rove!

Yet, hadst thou but one gentle mate
Thy little drooping heart to cheer,
And share with thee thy captive state,
Thou couldst be happy even there.

Yes, even there, if, listening by,
One faithful dear companion stood,
While gazing on her full bright eye,
Thou mightst forget thy native wood.

But thou, poor solitary dove,
Must make, unheard, thy joyless moan;
The heart, that Nature formed to love,
Must pine, neglected, and alone.

Les



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