Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNREGENERATE, by JACQUELINE EMBRY First Line: I shall come back in ways I think you'll know Last Line: "she'll love to hear you mutter: ""damn that bird!" Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas | ||||||||
I shall come back in ways I think you'll know: A cocky, strutting robin where you pass, Perhaps a flake of sudden, stinging snow, A cricket mocking at you from the grass; A gusty little wind will whirl your hat (And laugh to watch your funny, pompous wrath). I'll be an April rain and drench it flat, Then stand, a prickly hedge, straight in your path. I shall not come a sentimental thing: A star, a cloud, a Wordsworth daffodil; A woodpecker, red-topped, will light and bring Her maddening racket to your window-sill At five a.m. And when you've waked and heard, She'll love to hear you mutter: "Damn that bird!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PINSK AFTER DARK by ALLEN GINSBERG TRANSFORMATIONS by THOMAS HARDY PRE-EXISTENCE by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE ETERNITY by GRACE GRISWOLD BISBY REINCARNATION by ALICE CHURCHILL CHAPHE SECOND LIFE by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100 by HAN SHAN THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 185 by HAN SHAN BONNET SONNET by JACQUELINE EMBRY |
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