Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAGYAR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS First Line: Forget with me this babbling, scented room Last Line: A hundred decades... And we love once more! Variant Title(s): Mongol Subject(s): Hungary; Immortality | ||||||||
Forget with me this babbling, scented room. Your high cheek bones, the flaring lift of brow Speak of a stronger clan. Can we resume That night a thousand years ago -- and now Brought back to me by your fierce tenderness? Touching your cheek that holds the desert stain, Giving to me its unashamed caress -- I ride once more across a moonlit plain And see a tented city -- a swift pack Of savage horsemen giving eager tongue -- Your hot disdain is close upon our track, A baffled suitor's futile lance is flung... From steel-rimmed hoof to purr of cushioned wheel -- From desert sand to polished ball-room floor -- The lights, the music, and your beauty steal A hundred decades... and we love once more! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY by GEORGE SANTAYANA COUNTRY DOCTOR by DANA KNEELAND AKERS |
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