Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MOUNT AETNA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE First Line: Aetna - I've been up vesuvius / vesuvius has shrunk, it seems Last Line: A little more . . . Or less . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano) | ||||||||
AEtna-I've been up Vesuvius . . . Vesuvius has shrunk, it seems: There was more heat in me than streams From that wounded crater in hot pus . . . -They say you're like a woman. -What? -Your age, I suppose-? or maybe that cooked Pebble, your heart? . . . Well, it's a thought . . . Laugh? I thought I'd come apart! -That dirty grin of yours, that cough Thick as the phlegm of a senile lust; Your old breast cancer draining off Lava from under its scabby crust. Comrade, let's go to bed together, My hide against your sick hide; yes, I swear by Venus you're my brother, Vulcan! . . . A little more . . . or less . . . | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIS FIRST LINES (PRESERVED BY HIS MOTHER) by WALTER SCOTT AFTER THE RAIN by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE BLIND MAN'S CRIES by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE CABIN-KID by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE EVIL LANDSCAPE by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE HOURS by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE INSOMNIA by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE KAZOO by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE LETTER FROM MEXICO by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE |
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