Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BABIES IN HOSPITAL, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small elena Last Line: I am guilty of Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. | ||||||||
I. Small Elena Of shrunken limbs And ample sex Who Having filched The atrophied Woman-smile of your mother Scatter it On the eating unseen Tuberculous Inaudible hands On the counter-pane It might have been Impossible Fingers should be so long Being so tiny But Nature Needing no microscope In her laboratory Found it just as easy Marshalling imperceptible Hosts To bone of your arm Among overlapping of lint Attaining a dignity Unworthy of your years Two and a half! II. Hail to you Bad little boy Lying In bound beauty Of only a broken leg And thank you For throwing Your bricks on the floor For the third time And the smack You gave me For the thermometer Delightfully male Already gallant You smooth the mackintosh For Elena to sit on beside you Her fragility Being irresistibly for you You are very wise Precocious coquette Who never learnt to talk To look at him Before Your semi-imbecile Eyes shut It is not given to each of us To be desired. III. Tend Do not touch Apparent flowers Of festering secret And the fly-by-nights Such little things I cannot be your mother There are already So many ignorances I am not guilty of. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA by MINA LOY ITALIAN PICTURES: THE COSTA SAN GIORGIO by MINA LOY LOVE SONGS TO JOANNES by MINA LOY THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT by MINA LOY APOLOGY OF A GENIUS by MINA LOY STARRY SKY OF WYNDHAM LEWIS by MINA LOY |
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