Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALMA PERDIDA, by VALERY LARBAUD Poet's Biography First Line: To you, vague aspirations; eagerness Last Line: To you, this lost soul! Subject(s): Memory | ||||||||
To you, vague aspirations; eagerness; After-breakfast thoughts; rousings of the spirit; Tenderness that follows the satisfaction Of natural needs; flashes of genius; stir Of digestion; slow appeasement Of digestion done; and causeless joys; Troubles of circulation; memories of love; Perfume of benzoin in the morning bath; dreams of love; My great Castilian savor of a jest, my enormous Puritan sadness, my especial tastes: Chocolate, sugar-candy to burn, iced drinks; Drowsying cigars; you, crooning cigarettes; Delights of speed; pleasure of being at rest; the boon Of sleep in absolute obscurity; Great poetry of banal things: odd items, trips; Gipsies; sleigh-rides; rain on the sea; Madness of the fevered night, alone with my books; Heights and depths of time and temperament; Reglimpsed moments of another life; memories, prophecies; O splendours of daily life and the regular routine: To you, this lost soul! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND THE SAME QUESTION by JOHN HOLLANDER FORGET HOW TO REMEMBER HOW TO FORGET by JOHN HOLLANDER ON THAT SIDE by LAWRENCE JOSEPH MEMORY OF A PORCH by DONALD JUSTICE |
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