Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CASTLE WILLIAM, by NATHALIA CRANE First Line: Where buttermilk channel doth seek to beguile Last Line: "down in the casemates of old ""castle bill." Subject(s): Castles; Soldiers | ||||||||
WHERE Buttermilk Channel doth seek to beguile Diffident margins of Governor's Isle, There is a fortress all bastioned and chill, Known to the army as old "Castle Bill." There are occasions when soldiers may smile; Not in that castle on Governor's Isle; Not in the cloisters where sentries abound; Not where a gun butt leaps up from the ground. Oh! There are manythe old cannoneers, Infantry sergeants and grave grenadiers; They have gone onward to zones of desire, Scorning all theories of musketry fire; They have advanced to civilian vales, Building new barracks for sweet nightingales. Yet they revert in their leisure sedate, Seeing in visions that old castle gate; Still they remember their days in the mill Down in the casemates of old "Castle Bill." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALL ARMIES ARE THE SAME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY ABSENT WITH OFFICIAL LEAVE by RANDALL JARRELL PORT OF EMBARKATION by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON OPERATION MEMORY by DAVID LEHMAN |
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