That title character calls himself a "sinner viler than you all," although the "silly people take [him] for a saint."
In this work, the speaker reassures himself by crying "Courage!" and noting that "this dull chrysalis/cracks into shining wings." The speaker of this work cries, "I prophesy that I shall die to-night/a quarter before twelve." The title character of this work has born "rain, wind, frost, heat, hail, damp" for (*) "thrice ten years" and asks to be "caught up" into the Lord's rest. That title character calls himself a "sinner viler than you all," although the "silly people take [him] for a saint." For 10 points, name this dramatic monologue about a holy man who sits atop a pillar for thirty-seven years, written by Tennyson.
In this work, the speaker reassures himself by crying "Courage!" and noting that "this dull chrysalis/cracks into shining wings."
“St. Simeon {Stylites}”