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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLAINT OF ART, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT
First Line: Art hangs suspended by a silken thread
Last Line: Is stifling art, and silencing the pen.
Subject(s): Art & Artists
First Line: Art hangs suspended by a silken thread
Last Line: Is stifling art, and silencing the pen.
Subject(s): Art & Artists
Art hangs suspended by a silken thread --
Interpreters of beauty cling the fringe
Of life, despised, some honored after dead --
Blasphemous babble is the artist's twinge;
Withdraw the wondrous work of sleepless nights,
Blot out creations of a cultured mind,
Destroy the gossamer creative lights,
And see the stalking hulks it leaves behind;
Life's parasites are bloated to the brim
With art's ambrosia, with the artist stung
To bleeding, nourishing a thankless whim,
Still, lean and beggarly his all is wrung;
The double-dealing savagery of men
Is stifling art, and silencing the pen.
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