Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE JOURNEY, by PAUL FORT First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee. Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
The train puffs off, and we depart, -- fay of my heart, enchanted Muse, -- speeding to summer's azure heart, to that vaunted ground where trees are found as thick as rushes in the ooze. 'Tis in the land of the Yveline, Muse, a cottage waits for you and me, there it awaits us, small and fine, a rustic cot, yet half-divine, so clean, so white, such harmony! This much alone I know, my love, that it waits 'neath many a heaven blue, and was chosen for us by Vibert that we might spoil with verses there his wood-cuts, prefaced by Helleu. On we speed: Saint Cyr, farewell to thee, Grignan, Plaisir, Neauphlele-Vieux, Montfort, Galluis; and soon La Queue. In a hamlet -- sweet futurity! -- tonight how happy we shall be! This hamlet christened Les Haizettes, beneath Gros Rouvre, hard by Baisson, from tonight we there . . . but hurry on, our spirits much rejoiced, Musette, that with Haizettes doth rhyme "noisettes." Let us love already Yveline, the land where mused the young Racine when all day he stayed away from school to the horror of Monsieur Nicole. Shall we be less frivolous, Muse of mine? This train goes well. The Yvette I've seen cut, with the blade of its pruning- hook, fields gold in the sunset's ardent sheen, and this one-journey's end I ween -- quenches the gleam that lights my book. Here is La Queue, where we descend. Like an altar doth Vibert extend his arms, his beard, his progeny, then the Lieutel he indicates whose stream I thought was the Yvette's. I present him, lovely Muse, to thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE LITTLE ANNUITANT by PAUL FORT |
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