Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye, Like the last orphan leaf of naked tree Which shudders in bleak autumn; though by thee, Of hearing careless and untutored eye, Not understood articulate speech of men, Nor marked the artificial mind of books, -- The mortal's voice eternized by the pen, -- Yet hast thou thought and language all unknown To Babel's scholars; oft intensest looks, Long scrutiny o'er some dark-veined stone Dost thou bestow, learning dead mysteries Of the world's birth-day, oft in eager tone With quick-tailed fellows bandiest prompt replies, Solicitudes canine, four-footed amities. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONTRA MORTEM: THE VILLAGE by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK by JAMES GALVIN TO A FRIEND WRITING ON CABARET DANCERS by EZRA POUND CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON OCTAVES: 21 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON FACADE: 22. ALONE by EDITH SITWELL BEFORE THE FLOWERS OF FRIENDSHIP FADED FADED: 21 by GERTRUDE STEIN |