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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOLLY'S HARVEST, by BERNARD RAYMUND
First Line: Superb impertinence of youth
Last Line: Its unacknowledged way.
Subject(s): Harvest; Youth
First Line: Superb impertinence of youth
Last Line: Its unacknowledged way.
Subject(s): Harvest; Youth
Superb impertinence of youth
That wears the scar of no defeat,
On you adversity will set its tooth
And find the morsel sweet.
That smooth blank of your countenance
Time cannot soften into wit,
Nor ease what lines will say you met mischance
And had the worst of it.
The swagger of your rotund hip,
The blithe assurance of your gait,
Trust not by such sweet insolence to slip
From all that lies in wait!
For though the winter's latest thaw
Work outwardly no change, decay
Concealed beneath the colored rind will gnaw
Its unacknowledged way.
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