Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REQUEST, by FLORA J. ARNSTEIN First Line: This is the granite me Last Line: Your unencumbered anonymity. | ||||||||
This is the granite me: These stript bones, These polished struts and knobs, The wrist and knees' precise articulation, The skull's cool edifice -- These, the outlasting me; While the swift nerves, Bearers of rapture, of electric pain, Tuned to a thousand subtleties, These and the procreant brain Share the mortality of froth on waves. Therefore, persistent skeleton, Impervious and changeless, I, integral, unique and perishable, Do hereby abdicate, bequeath to you What is already yours; your sovereign prize Your unencumbered anonymity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PARADISE LOST: BOOK 4 by JOHN MILTON BUCK O' KINGWATTER by ROBERT ANDERSON OF CARLISLE AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER by PHILIP AYRES |
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