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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BURROS, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography First Line: The burros lazily infest the mountain Last Line: With tears. No beast can be a standing jest, and find in life much joy or zest, Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Horses; Burros | |||
THE burros lazily infest the mountain regions of the West. You see them on the dizzy trails, with drooping ears and switching tails; and as they climb the rocky steep, they all seem walking in their sleep. The world has many mournful things, that walk on legs or fly on wings; the moping owl seems so depressed it gives you fantods in your breast; the cross-eyed jackal sits and howls more dismally than all the owls. The circus clown has won renown as being utterly cast down. But if you'd see the soul of woe, pack up your thermos flasks and go, out to some rugged western place, and look a burro in the face. There you will find, beneath those ears, the sorrow of a million years. I wondered why he looked so sad, when, in a Colorado grad, I first beheld him packing round a dame who weighed two hundred pound. But soon I knew; where'er he wends, a gale of merriment ascends, and dreary jokes assail his ears and fill his patient eyes with tears. No beast can be a standing jest, and find in life much joy or zest, | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DONKEY by THEODORE ROETHKE TO A YOUNG ASS; ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE KERR'S ASS by PATRICK KAVANAGH MY BURRO AND I by EDA D. FLAGG DONKEYS, FR. THE SILVER SPOON by JOHN GALSWORTHY THE DONKEY LOADED WITH RELICS by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE CLANCY THE BURRO'S FIRST DAY IN HEAVEN by DAVID WAGONER |
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