Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to live; but truly Last Line: Go ajourneying with the moon. Subject(s): Conversation; Dawn; Language; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary | ||||||||
I'd like to live; but truly The Ideal is too loose. Besides being unruly, The word makes you a goose. All may be disputed; Books to books death-giving! Absolutes are confuted Where the truth consists in living. And if I lower my banner And to the Void succumb? The Infinite, in grand manner, Will suggest: "Oh, don't be dumb!" The tackles of the Possible whinny At the Inconceivable, though! One degree, and there are so many From dawn to twilight-glow. Is being actual, at least, Being fit to do something? It follows, till the rose has ceased Growing flowers for fragrance, thorns for sting. Your unusual way of letting me gather The vicious circle in which all is hewn? Vicious, everything! Thanks; I'd rather Go ajourneying with the moon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER |
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