I'd rather stand important in a swallow Tailed coat provided by the maison and Take hats and wraps in the porches of Apollo (Letting the gentlemen perceive my hand By accident -- the palm a little hollow -- Under the overcoats), I'd rather stand Here at the door telling the crowd to follow The golden arrows till they hear the band Than work inside. Inside they never see The pretty women in expensive dresses Who come on tilted heels to dance nor the Hibernian earls and Iowa princesses, But carry coals in the old dusty hod -- For what? For nothing but to see the god. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FLETCHER MCGEE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS CONTRA MORTEM: THE THAW by HAYDEN CARRUTH MARSHALL WASHER by HAYDEN CARRUTH DEAD LEAVES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TO MY CLASS: ON CERTAIN FRUITS AND FLOWERS SENT ... SICKNESS by SIDNEY LANIER NORTH WIND TO DUTIFUL BEAST MIDWAY BETWEEN DIAL & FOOT OF GARDEN CLOCK by MARIANNE MOORE |