Dean , adult education may seem silly. What of it, though? I got some willy-nilly The other evening at your college deanery. And grateful for it (let's not be facetious!) For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery. But you say that in college nomenclature The only meaning possible for Nature In Landor's quatrain would be Pretty Scenery. Which makes opposing it to Art absurd I grant you-if you're sure about the word. God bless the Dean and make his deanship plenary. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO EMILIE BIGELOW HAPGOOD - PHILANTHROPIST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER BLUEJAY by SARA TEASDALE BOLDNESS IN LOVE by THOMAS CAREW FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO LIZBIE BROWNE by THOMAS HARDY THE DYING SWAN by THOMAS STURGE MOORE CELIA'S HOMECOMING by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON ARCADIA: SESTINA by PHILIP SIDNEY SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 3 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |