Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO BROWNING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yellow betokens infidelity Last Line: Effrontery. Variant Title(s): Injudicious Gardening Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
IF yellow betokens infidelity, I am an infidel. I could not bear a yellow rose ill will Because books said that yellow boded ill, White promised well; However, your particular possession The sense of privacy In what you diddeflects from your estate Offending eyes, and will not tolerate Effrontery. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE |
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