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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AVATAR, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poet Analysis First Line: Yet I have loved these walls Last Line: That was the loin-cloth of the galilean. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Love | |||
Yet I have loved these walls -- grave with spaced etchings, darkened by their books, like stones that mellowing mosses climb -- have loved the furniture cherished of time: firm contours and old colours, with the flare of russet bittersweet in a green bowl and the black Persian shawl of my great-grandmother flung, like her gracious shadow, on this chair. Yes, I have loved soft rugs, and softer flowers, the silver and the cedarwood, the purple, the fine linen that is ours. I have loved things more intimately known than men and women, things that, beyond the feeble flesh, endure, aged and fine, familiar and secure. Yes, I have loved . . . And now I stand reproved by you, who want for this bodily tenement as temporal a house as some brief tent -- you, whose sole cedar grows on Lebanon, shaking its awful banners like a paean, you, whose sole purple is the dawn adored above the desert, you, whose sole linen is the weave abhorred that was the loin-cloth of the Galilean. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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