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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIMINUTIVE ULULANS, by FRANCIS MACNAMARA First Line: Wailing diminutive of me, be still Last Line: Perhaps forgive the vast impertinence. | |||
[To John Macnamara.] Wailing diminutive of me, be still; Or cry, but spare me that regretful tone,-- Of sorrows elemental waxing shrill, O you of living things the most alone! Son, do you thus reproach me and make moan, Because upon Love's chariot I did fly And a horn winded in the great unknown, Calling your atoms out to be an I? Should I have let you in abeyance lie, Disintegrate another million years? Then use your life to teach you how to die And pass again beyond the reach of tears, Some day you may regret I dragged you thence, Perhaps forgive the vast impertinence. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW-MADE HONOUR (IMITATED FROM MARTIAL) by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR EXCELSIOR by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1 by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SONNET by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE THE LEADING OF SORROW by MATHILDE BLIND RELEASE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 24, ASKING FOR HER HEART (2) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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