Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT THE MERMAID CAFETERIA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: Truth is enough for prose
Last Line: A madness well restrained.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


TRUTH is enough for prose:
Calmly it goes
To tell just what it knows.

For verse, skill will suffice --
Delicate, nice
Casting of verbal dice.

Poetry, men attain
By subtler pain
More flagrant in the brain --

An honesty unfeigned,
A heart unchained,
A madness well restrained.





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