Full Poem Text Available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Collected_Poems_of_John_Ciardi/DVR0EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=AN+APOLOGY+FOR+NOT+INVOKING+THE+MUSE,+by+JOHN+CIARDI&pg=PA440&printsec=frontcover | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI HE HAD HIS DREAM by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE POET'S SONG FOR HIS WIFE by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER ON THE COLLAR OF MRS. DINGLEY'S LAP-DOG by JONATHAN SWIFT SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 5. SHE THINKS OF THE FAITHFUL ONE by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS THE OLD MAID by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE CRACKED BELL by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ELEGIAC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |