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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REVERIE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poet's Biography First Line: Along the crowded shelves the lamplight falls Last Line: Gazes on satan hurled from paradise. Subject(s): Death; History; Memory; Dead, The; Historians | |||
ALONG the crowded shelves the lamplight falls, In arabesques and patterns and dim gules, Caressing crabbed handiwork of schools Long dead and long forgotten. One recalls Inscriptions on old tombstones blurred with mould, Petitioning a glance from passers-by. But there where Rabelaisian volumes lie, Flanked by Brantôme and Villon, bound in gold, There still, life, love, and wine run merrily. Gargantua jesus with young Pantagruel In some Tourainian castle oriel, Defying Death and Time's slow alchemy. Above the tiers with carven, sightless eyes, Milton, in scorn of French frivolity, Gazes on Satan hurled from Paradise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE by JOHN ASHBERY INITIAL CONDITIONS by MARVIN BELL THE DREAM SONGS: 290 by JOHN BERRYMAN THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE ROSARY by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS A HEALTH AT THE FORD by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS A OUTRANCE (FRANCE, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS |
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