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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVEN AS WIDOWS WINK, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO
First Line: Too often has the sonnet's lofty feat
Last Line: To sway and skip and even dance a little.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Too often has the sonnet's lofty feat
Last Line: To sway and skip and even dance a little.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
Too often has the sonnet's lofty feat
Condemned itself to tragedy's emprise;
As though unwinking death and the demise
Of kings were the full compass of its beat.
As it has been so shall it be tomorrow,
Our futile lives are ringed around with doom;
But sadder poets aggravate the gloom
With the deep accents of a duller sorrow.
Even as widows wink despite their weeds,
Let us perceive how with a lighter measure
Unfaltering, the sonnet yields new treasure
And lifts a waking magic in the reeds,
As we may teach it for its own acquittal
To sway and skip and even dance a little.
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