Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUCIA TRENT, by RAPHAELITA LOPEZ First Line: You are a poet centuries to come Last Line: Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) | ||||||||
You are a poet centuries to come Will praise when studying our fearful fix. They'll call us "kin to archeopteryx" -- That scaly bird, of song most starkly dumb, Who climbed but could not fly from out the scum Yet was of song and flight progenitrix. But you seem free both sides the River Styx As if you came from out Millennium. "Though words have changed, she wrote our thoughts," they'll tell, "This early prophetess of ways we've gone. How did she know the truths we've yet to plumb? Oh, how her age must have loved her, dined her well!" . . . Ah, could they see the apron you have on, Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI MOUNTAIN WATER by SARA TEASDALE |
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