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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAPID TRANSIT (TO STEPHEN VINCENT BENET), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing is easy and swift on parnassus! Last Line: My pipe was still warm in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores | |||
CLIMBING is easy and swift on Parnassus! Knocking my pipe out, I entered a bookshop; There found a book of verse by a young poet. Comrades at once, how I saw his mind glowing! Saw in his soul its magnificent rioting -- Then I ran with him on hills that were windy, Basked and laughed with him on sun-dazzled beaches, Glutted myself on his green and blue twilights, Watched him disposing his planets in patterns, Tumbling his colors and toys all before him. I questioned life with him, his pulses my pulses; Doubted his doubts, too, and grieved for his anguishes. Salted long kinship and knew him from boyhood -- Pulled out my own sun and stars from my knapsack, Trying my trinkets with those of his finding -- And as I left the bookshop My pipe was still warm in my hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE ROAD TO LARRY ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE by ELEANOR WILNER EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT by ALEXANDER POPE SKETCH - PORTRAIT OF CREECH THE BOOKSELLER by ROBERT BURNS EPIGRAM: ON AUTHORS AND BOOKSELLERS by ALEXANDER POPE FROM A LONDON BOOKSHOP by ANONYMOUS THE DOMESTIC PHILOSOPHER by A LADY [PSEUD.] ANIMAL CRACKERS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY IN HONOR OF TAFFY TOPAZ by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY THE PLUMPUPPETS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY |
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