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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO CERTAIN OF ONE'S ELDERS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: You, too listless to examine
Last Line: Than go ambling with the ague.
First Line: You, too listless to examine
Last Line: Than go ambling with the ague.
You, too listless to examine
If in pestilence or famine
Death lurk least, a hungry gamin
Gnawing on you like a beaver
On a root, while you trifle
Time away nodding in the sun,
Careless how the shadows crawl
Surely up your crumbling wall,
Heedless of the Thief's footfall,
Death's whose nimble fingers rifle
Your heart beats one by weary one --
Here's the difference in our dying:
You go dawdling, I go flying.
Here's a thought flung out to plague you:
Mine the pleasure if I'd liefer
Burn completely with the fever
Than go ambling with the ague.
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