YOU write your Life of Donne. 'Twill be A masterpiece of sympathy! Exact, I know, in fact and date, And skilled to lead, to stimulate, To show, as you would have him seen, That morbid, mystic, mighty Dean. But will you catch old Izaak's phrase That glows with energy of praise? Old Izaak's ambling unpretence That flames with untaught eloquence? Will you? I pause for a reply, And you must answer, Friend, not I. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVELIGHT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE LEAVES FIRST by CARL PHILLIPS NEIGHBORS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON TO CERTAIN JOURNEYMEN by CARL SANDBURG PLAINT OF THE DISGUSTED BRITON IN THE STATES by GEORGE SANTAYANA |