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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOAM AND FANGS, by WALTER PARKE First Line: O nymph with the nicest of noses Last Line: Who knows what I mean. | |||
O NYMPH with the nicest of noses; And finest and fairest of forms; Lips ruddy and ripe as the roses That sway and that surge in the storms; O buoyant and blooming Bacchante, Of fairer than feminine face, Rush, raging as demon of Dante -- To this. my embrace! The foam and the fangs and the flowers, The raving and ravenous rage Of a poet as pinion'd in powers As a condor confined in a cage! My heart in a haystack I've hidden, As loving and longing I lie, Kiss open thine eyelids unbidden -- I gaze and I die! I've wander'd the wild waste of slaughter, I've sniffed up the sepulchre's scent, I've doated on devilry's daughter, And murmur'd much more than I meant; I've paused at Penelope's portal, So strange are the sights that I've seen, And mighty's the mind of the mortal Who knows what I mean. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW by WALTER PARKE MY MADELINE; SERENADE IN M FLAT by WALTER PARKE YOUNG GAZELLE; A MOORE-ISH TALE by WALTER PARKE SELF-ANALYSIS by DAVID IGNATOW THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by ROBERT BROWNING IDYLLS OF THE KING: GARETH AND LYNETTE by ALFRED TENNYSON THE ROSE TREE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE BROOK: WINTER by LAURA ABELL HALVING IT WITH WITHER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE NUANCES OF MENDACITY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO by MARY ASTELL |
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