Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSTRUCTION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a place in a little garden Last Line: And the leaping of a word. Subject(s): Laurels; Rest; Solitude; Loneliness | ||||||||
I HAVE a place in a little garden, That laurel-leaf and fern Keep a cool place though fires of summer All the green grasses burn. Little cool winds creep there about When winds all else are dead, And tired limbs there find gentle keeping, And humours of sloth are shed. So do your songs come always to me, Poets of age and age, Clear and cool as rivers of wind Threading my hermitage, Stilling my mind from tribulation Of life half-seen, half-heard, With images made in the brain's quietness, And the leaping of a word. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES |
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