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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR A SHY LOVER, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you will poise your forefoot in my pool Last Line: I will be quiet, I will be cool. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Love | |||
If you will poise your forefoot in my pool, I will not loose a ripple, Beautiful. Crackle the fern-stems, arch aloft and stare, See! there's no fright for you, anywhere. A leaf shall not lift, nor a shade shake You and your shy love away from my lake. I know the noon is a blaze for you, This gaunt forest, a maze for you: Kneel near a drop of water on stone. No one comes plunging. You are alone. Today I am opal tinged with blue, My color darkens with the glassy heat, And I listen for hoofs. Am I timid, too? Noon is my enemy! Thrust in your feet! Trample this silver, trample this sand, I will not startle you, Little One; stand Slim as the larch, there, I'll not take Even your shade to the naked ache Of my lessening waters. If you lean, Another faun, like you, but green Will flick his ears and curve his throat, His shadow hoof will lift between These pebble-splotches. Will you float, Mingle and drowse and touch me, Beautiful? If you come down some blown noon to my pool, I will be quiet, I will be cool. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD THE ENAMEL GIRL by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD A FAT LADY HEARS SHAKESPEARE AT THE CLUB by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD |
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