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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REQUEST, by FLORA J. ARNSTEIN First Line: This is the granite me Last Line: Your unencumbered anonymity. | |||
This is the granite me: These stript bones, These polished struts and knobs, The wrist and knees' precise articulation, The skull's cool edifice -- These, the outlasting me; While the swift nerves, Bearers of rapture, of electric pain, Tuned to a thousand subtleties, These and the procreant brain Share the mortality of froth on waves. Therefore, persistent skeleton, Impervious and changeless, I, integral, unique and perishable, Do hereby abdicate, bequeath to you What is already yours; your sovereign prize Your unencumbered anonymity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GODWIN JAMES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS OBERMANN ONCE MORE by MATTHEW ARNOLD APRIL, 1885 by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN by JULIA CRAWFORD AT THE WEDDING MARCH by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS SONG, FR. ARTAXERXES (OPERA) by THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE YESTERDAY by RUTH LASHORNE BUNDY MY DREAM OF DREAMS by ALICE CARY |
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