Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A PHOTOGRAPHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: I have known joy and woe and toil and fight Last Line: They are my scars of battle put them back! Subject(s): Aging; Disdain; Photography & Photographers; Time; Scorn | ||||||||
I have known joy and woe and toil and fight I have lived largely, I have dreamed and planned, And Time, the sculptor, with a master hand, Upon my face has wrought for all men's sight The lines and seams of Life, of growth and blight, Of struggle and of service and command; And now you show me This this waxen, bland And placid face unlined, untroubled, white! This is not I this fatuous face you show Retouched and prettified and smoothed to please, Put back the wrinkles and the lines I know; I have spent blood and brain achieving these, Out of the pain, the sorrow and the wrack, They are my scars of battle PUT THEM BACK! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER by NORMAN DUBIE TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY by NORMAN DUBIE TO THE NECROPHILE by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 13 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 14 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH ANTINOMY by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE VOICES OF SCORN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES TO THE TUNE 'IN FAITH I CANNOT KEEP MY FATHER'S SHEEP' by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) TO HIS SCORNFUL MISTRESS by WILLIAM HAMMOND |
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