Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RENOVATION, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE



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First Line: Would that I were naked adam
Last Line: For sea, forest or glen?
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge


WOULD that I were naked Adam,
And you like Eve ran bare,
Though all our friends and other folk
Unborn, unthought-of, were!

Should we miss house or street or town,
Gossip, tea or cake,
Might we but climb a breeze-rocked pine,
Doze there or lie awake?

Ah, nothing grieves that is itself:
Say, are these millions men
Who, boxed in slate-roofed rows, there sicken
For sea, forest or glen?





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