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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ATAVISTIC, by PAULINE GARNER CURRAN First Line: Four walls for my body Last Line: Find the way back! | |||
Four walls for my body To shield me from the cold; Four walls for my thinking Lest I grow over bold. Outside foaming grasses And moon-frosted sea; Within, a vase of roses Trimmed to rigidity. I dare not cross the lintel Or open the least crack, For never could such running Find the way back! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TANGENTIAL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH by ROBERT BURNS COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE] by ROBERT HERRICK PEPITA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH SORCERY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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