Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILD-PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: As children play with toys Last Line: Realities that choke them here. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Tears; Toys; Childhood; Nightmares | ||||||||
AS children play with toys, So men with hopes and fancies: The little ones with romp and noise Build card-frail, gold romances; Their elders through the perilous years Build dreams -- and wake to toil and tears. But, old or young the same, The glittering baubles please them; And be it fame or game, These make-believes release them From iron circumstance, from drear Realities that choke them here. | Other Poems of Interest...THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: A DREAM by LYN HEJINIAN VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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