Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ION, by JOE HORRELL


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First Line: O sir, you have quaffed afflatuses with fire
Last Line: But I can only take you with a smile.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


O sir, you have quaffed afflatuses with fire
and without rule and your judgment writhes
in flames and your distending pulses tire:
you are somewhat in default on reason's tithes.

Homer is not all: there are others you
might rhapsodize and pinnacle on the white
daintiness of women, but you drew
the fire and drank the furious flames in spite.

Breathe your hot breath on poetry and sear
the chilly mind, with convoluting guile
outfit us with a tremor or a tear:
but I can only take you with a smile.





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