Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUNOON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: Little maggie sitting in the pew Last Line: Of hearts that stir not from their places. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Youth | ||||||||
LITTLE Maggie sitting in the pew, Eyes of light and lips of dew! What is that to you? what is that to you -- Little Maggie sitting in the pew? Grinding like a saw-mill, Worthy Doctor "Cawmill," What has he to do, He so lank and prosy, With Maggie plump and rosy -- Little Maggie sitting in the pew? Is burd Maggie stupid? No, by sweet Saint Cupid! Rhythmic little sinner, All that is within her Chiming like a psalm In the stellar calm; Gracious warmth of blood Making fancies bud With a tender folly Into belled corollae; Radiating gleams Of half-conscious dreams, Floating her on blisses Of potential kisses; Filling all the presence With a balmy pleasance, With a kind confusion, With a quick elusion Of all ponderous matter That would fain come at her -- What is that to you, Little Maggie, little Maggie, sitting in the pew? Cubic, orthodox, Sink the ordered blocks: Doctrinal adamant, Riven with the fiery rant And hammered with the hammer of John Knox; Cemented with the cant Of glutinous emotion; Riveted with logic Hard-gripped, presbyterous, Something, mayhap, to us! But Maggie, with a "mawgic" Of which we have no notion, Upborne upon the tide Of her young life, has power to hide, With unbroken sweetness With a soul-completeness, All the rock and rubble; Knowing of no trouble; Flecked only With shadows of those lofty things and lonely, That from the seventh sphere Pencil their diamond traces Nowhere but on the mere Of hearts that stir not from their places. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN A SERMON AT CLEVEDON; GOOD FRIDAY by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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