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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOPHISTICATE, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO First Line: Old friends are but a graveyard Last Line: That I should have outgrown so many things. Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Friendship | |||
Old friends are but a graveyard where the dead Lie unentombed and have a final fling; A potter's field, with gay bones bellowing Forgotten things far better left unsaid. Yesterday is a hearty corpse, well fed; An old lover; a long outmoded thing; And yet persistently re-echoing An existence which has since been shed. Today I go serenely on my way Until a face looms from the past; I greet Not just this friend, but all of yesterday -- A kiss, a tear, a triumph or defeat. Oh God! It seems more strange with passing Springs That I should have outgrown so many things. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND NO RESURRECTION by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL ALMSWOMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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