Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CALIDUS JUVENTA?, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE


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First Line: We are afraid that we have not lived
Last Line: In a palsied age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Life


We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.
Toss images to the indifferent morning
Amid laughter and crying --
Amid fitful buffetings of strangled hearts
While they are dying.

Draw tight the words of death shivering
On the strictured page --
The cup of Morgan Fay is shattered.
Life is a bitter sage,
And we are weary infants
In a palsied age.






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