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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR AN AGRARIAN, SMILING, by JOE HORRELL First Line: The mind's portico is dusty and its fence Last Line: The white magnolias and grey confederate bones! | |||
The mind's portico is dusty and its fence ambles over the rutted hill and gullied: clean the sky of smoke and with the violence of poetry keep the weary land unsullied. The antique music of relics marls the dusty patches while the bitter hollyhocks demurely forbid the implements from getting rusty: you must keep them bright and shine them dearly. When earthern songs were precipitate in the soil the textured loam slipped through the hand, no stones: O let us prefer to portentous turmoil the white magnolias and grey Confederate bones! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MRS. PILSUDSKI'S UNCATHARTIC AFTERNOONS by JOE HORRELL FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS PARTED by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 23RD STREET RUNS INTO HEAVEN by KENNETH PATCHEN TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TWO SONGS FROM THE PERSIAN: 2 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE MAUSOLEUM by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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