History & Politics
Beautiful City
From Demeter and Other Poems (1889)
History & Politics
BEAUTIFUL city, the centre and crater of European confusion,
O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity,
How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution
Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Beautiful City.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/430/.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Beautiful City.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/430/.
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