Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the service of this poet? He Last Line: Who knew so little, and who felt so much. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
"It is said that a poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid." -- Robert Louis Stevenson. WHAT was the service of this poet? He Who blinked the blinding dazzle-rays that run Where life profiles its edges to the sun, And still suspected much he could not see. Clay-stopped, yet in his taciturnity There lay the vein of glory, known to none; And moods of secret smiling, only won When peace and passion, time and sense, agree. Fighting the world he loved for chance to brood, Ignorant when to embrace, when to avoid His loves that held him in their vital clutch -- This was his service, his beatitude; This was the inward trouble he enjoyed Who knew so little, and who felt so much. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ANIMAL CRACKERS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY |
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