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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIGER-LILIES, by EDMUND WENDT First Line: The angle is inside the curve, but none Last Line: Silly, but after all, why should we mind it? Subject(s): Tiger Lilies | |||
The angle is inside the curve, but none Is sure the middle of the corner's there; The primrose path seems momentarily gone, But we shall see what tiger-lilies wear. Who will have enemas must hang the bag High up, and fill it with not too hot water. There was a day when nothing but a rag Was worn by her dark crimson-petalled daughter: But now the fashion changes, and we see Slacks and deep scarlet stained-nails abound. Nothing has been but it shall sometime be, For Aristophanes said we were round. It is a silly fable if you find it Silly, but after all, why should we mind it? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIGER LILY by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI SONNET (ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH OF A SON) by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE DEPARTURE OF THE SWALLOW by WILLIAM HOWITT LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN by JOHN KEATS GOOD-NIGHT TO THE SEASON by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED HEART AND MIND by EDITH SITWELL THE SORROWS OF WERTHER by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY BALLADE OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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