STORMS have beaten on this point of land And ships gone to wreck here and the passers-by remember it with talk on the deck at night as they near it. Fists have beaten on the face of this old prize-fighter And his battles have held the sporting pages and on the street they indicate him with their right fore-finger as one who once wore a championship belt. A hundred stories have been published and a thousand rumored About why this tall dark man has divorced two beautiful young women And married a third who resembles the first two and they shake their heads and say, "There he goes," when he passes by in sunny weather or in rain along the city streets. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 7 by EZRA POUND A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY by EDMUND SPENSER THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES by FRANCOIS VILLON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 11. AL-MUTAKABBIR by EDWIN ARNOLD CHARACTERS: JOHN AIKEN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |