Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WORD THAT MAKES US LINGER (WRITTEN IN VISITOR'S BOOK AT GOPSALL), by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Kind hostess mine, who raised the latch Last Line: But I can't write that dreadful word. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Parting; Words; Vocabulary | ||||||||
KIND hostess mine, who raised the latch And welcomed me beneath your thatch, Who makes me here forget the pain, And all the pleasures of Cockaigne, Now, pen in hand, and pierced with woe, I write one word before I go A word that dies upon my lips While thus you kiss your finger-tips. When Black-eyed Sue was rowed to land That word she cried, and waved her hand Her lily hand! It seems absurd, But I can't write that dreadful word. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER A NICE CORRESPONDENT by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON |
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