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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHALLENGE, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE First Line: My attic is strewn with rubbish Last Line: And swing out on a comet's tail! | |||
My attic is strewn with rubbish -- Broken adventurings. My wood-yard is heaped with wreckage -- Twisted aeroplane wings. When Life, like a teasing woman, Flings a "Follow-me-if-you-dare!" In a trice I have snapped my moorings To fly with a "devil-may-care." Now, slow brown seeds are sprouting Within my garden patch And plump gray pigeons nesting Beneath my eaves of thatch; But, tonight, should that taunting challenge Blow in on a hissing gale, I'd chuck my pipe at my watch-dog And swing out on a comet's tail! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BECAUSE MY HEART IS YOUNG by JANIE SMITH RHYNE SONG FOR MIDDLE YEARS by JANIE SMITH RHYNE SUN-DOWN SONG by JANIE SMITH RHYNE THE LOST JEWEL by EMILY DICKINSON THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES. THE COURTIN' by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL EL HOMBRE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH DOVE RIVER ANTHOLOGY, BY OWN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: LUCY GRAY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS EASTER (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES) by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE BELOVED by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'SALLY IN OUR ALLEY' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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