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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...SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS EARLY RISING by JOHN GODFREY SAXE NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 83. YA MALIK by EDWIN ARNOLD THE POWERFUL by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE MESSAGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN FUNERAL MASS: REQUIEM by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV |
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