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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The barren music of a word or phrase
Last Line: Not in his life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets
First Line: The barren music of a word or phrase
Last Line: Not in his life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets
THE barren music of a word or phrase,
The futile arts of syllable and stress,
He sought. The poetry of common days
He did not guess.
The simplest, sweetest rhythms life affords --
Unselfish love, true effort truly done,
The tender themes that underlie all words --
He knew not one.
The human cadence and the subtle chime
Of little laughters, home and child and wife,
He knew not. Artist merely in his rhyme,
Not in his life.
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