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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTOURS, by NOEL COWARD Poet's Biography First Line: Round - oblong - like jam Last Line: That's what it is. Subject(s): Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964) | |||
Round — oblong — like jam — Terse as virulent hermaphrodites; Calling across the sodden twisted Edifices of importunity Sway like Parmesan before the half-tones Of Episcopalian Michaelmas; Bodies are so impossible to see in retrospect — And yet I know the well of truth Is gutted like pratchful Unicorn. Sog, sog, sog — why is my mind amphibious? That's what it is. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SITWELL'S FRIEND, DOLORES HIDALGO by SANDRA STONE MRS. WORTHINGTON, SELECTION by NOEL COWARD TO A CASTILIAN SONG by SARA TEASDALE BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION by WILLIAM COWPER THE END OF THE EPISODE by THOMAS HARDY A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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