Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN


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EGOMANIA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation
Last Line: With hands stretched out—and feet that stray and falter.
Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations


SHE—She—Who is this She but my creation,
Dream of my waking, nightmare of my dark?
Her radiance is the corpse-light of a stark
Skeleton red-robed; her voice the lamentation
Of hireling mourners whining tribulation;
But in dawn's happier hour like the keen lark,
Stare, thrush and linnet, singing on though none mark
The wings and notes of earth's unearthly nation.

She is the extreme of maddest hope and hate,
And fashioned wildly by the reinless mind,
Nourished by thoughts of love and fears of fate,
With features past my wit or will to alter,
Shy as my thought, as my desire so blind,
With hands stretched out—and feet that stray and falter.





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