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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poet's Biography First Line: Need from excess - excess from folly growing Last Line: Profusion's last sad dying speech—'gone! Gone!' Subject(s): Time | |||
NEED from excess—excess from folly growing, Keeps Christie's hammer daily, going, going! Ill-omened prelude! whose dire knell brings on Profusion's last sad dying speech—'Gone! gone!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING by SAMUEL BISHOP |
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