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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A CERTAIN RICH MAN IN A CASTLE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN First Line: These lovely things you never quite posess Last Line: Remains one door your gold has never swung! Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Castles | |||
These lovely things you never quite possess -- Remains one door your gold has never swung! These proud old panes that rich the dim recess Where centuries have brushed their wings and clung; This carving and these pages dark with dung Of years that only chrome their mellowness; These lovely things you never quite possess -- Remains one door your gold has never swung! One sesame that roots in deep duress You had no time to tend when you were young, And though, today, a scutcheon takes your press And roses twine for you the ancient rung, These lovely things you never quite possess -- Remains one door your gold has never swung! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE ROCK OF CASHEL by AUBREY DE VERE THE HAUNTED PALACE by EDGAR ALLAN POE THE CASTLE BY THE SEA by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN ON SEEING BLENHEIM CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN AN OLD CASTLE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE CASTLE RUINS by WILLIAM BARNES MY HIDING PLACE AND ME by BARBARA BROOKS BIXLEY BY AN INDIAN GRAVE by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN |
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