Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PENNY'S WORTH OF POESY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when you noted a deflection Last Line: What to write. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking | ||||||||
LADY, when you noted a deflection In myas a ruleattentive gaze, You articulated mild objection, Using a not unfamiliar phrase. Was I thinking solemn thoughts, if any? Were my musings integers or naughts? Wondered you; and offered me a penny For my thoughts. Done and done! I get a gentle joyance Of a calm and melancholy kind When I learn, in spite of your clairvoyance, Yours is not the power to read my mind. Yet, I've thought, with something of a sinking Feeling that is hard to put in rhyme, You must guess, must know what I am thinking All the time. Lady, when the moon dips like a pearly Barge afloat upon a silver lake; When the morn is manifestly early, I am not infrequently awake. When, as not infrequently, I'm lying Waiting for a slumber overslow, Whither, whither do my thoughts go flying? Don't you know? Later, when the rosy morn appearing Ushers in the glory of the day, And the thought of eggs-and-bacon nearing Urges me to abdicate the hay; Whiles that I'm apparelling and laving Oh, but I am thoughtful as I dress What would be my major thought while shaving? Can't you guess? Through the various daily occupations In which I am needfully immersed, Which, of all my several cerebrations, Always is the uppermost and first? And when day her weary course is ending, And I finish what I term my task, Whither, whither do my thoughts go wending? Can you ask? Lady, some may deem it far from proper, Say it is with Freudian meaning fraught, Thus to tell you, for a paltry copper, What is my predominating thought. Lady, can you bear it without shrinking? Did you want my "thoughts" the other night? I was thinkingI am always thinking What to write. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (PREMIERS CENTS) by DENISE DUHAMEL SUNDAY AFTERNOON by CLARENCE MAJOR I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY by KENNETH REXROTH GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1 by KENNETH REXROTH LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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