|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DECEMBER'S GIFT, by DEBRA BRUCE
First Line: By shrill decree, as the wind / wills, fall's / bequeathing, brooding
First Line: By shrill decree, as the wind / wills, fall's / bequeathing, brooding
By shrill decree, as the wind
wills, fall's
bequeathing, brooding
beauty is arrested
in crisp bequest. It costs
a fortune to heat the house
in which the child
no longer roams in rooms
festooned with hope.
So why fribble with ribbons
another year? Why struggle
to unsnag those ancient lights?
The arrogance from suffering
in which you bask, insufferable
to yourself, might pass; even you
melt through,
your record lows notwithstanding,
your starkest days to date
which January waits to laminate.
http://www.wlu.edu/~shenano
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
GOING AND STAYING by THOMAS HARDY
DANSE RUSSE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE by THOMAS WYATT
INVOCATION TO SLEEP by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
MY WIFE'S COUSIN, SELECTION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN
ON BEING ASKED IF ONE WAS A NUMBER, REPLY TO MR. HOUGHTON by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 13 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH