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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR AN AGRARIAN, SMILING, by JOE HORRELL First Line: The mind's portico is dusty and its fence Last Line: The white magnolias and grey confederate bones! | |||
The mind's portico is dusty and its fence ambles over the rutted hill and gullied: clean the sky of smoke and with the violence of poetry keep the weary land unsullied. The antique music of relics marls the dusty patches while the bitter hollyhocks demurely forbid the implements from getting rusty: you must keep them bright and shine them dearly. When earthern songs were precipitate in the soil the textured loam slipped through the hand, no stones: O let us prefer to portentous turmoil the white magnolias and grey Confederate bones! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MRS. PILSUDSKI'S UNCATHARTIC AFTERNOONS by JOE HORRELL TO MARY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE HEMLOCK by EMILY DICKINSON ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by THOMAS GRAY THE HUDSON by GEORGE SIDNEY HELLMAN IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HYMN OF THE WEST by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN GOOD-NIGHT by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS THE ALTAR STONE by RICHARD ALEXANDER THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): EROS AND HIS MOTHER by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS |
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