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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AVOWAL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography First Line: As two men smoking, though one be a youth Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
As two men smoking , though one be a youth , And one so great he meets him as a peer Or cannot meet at all , speak open truth , "Eros , and now in disillusion , now That thou hast purged me of thy thick blindfold , Damon is false and Glaphyrus ! . . . Avow , Are not these creatures , I have doted on , Thine idols , and eternal sweet to thee? Dead loves I speak of, loves long dead and gone . " . . . A noble silence settled on our glee; And the sweet mouth grew jocund as he took The cup to pledge , and all his glorious pinions shook. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND CONSTANCY by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY |
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