Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROPER NOUNS, by JOHN E. REINECKE


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First Line: I cannot master the common nouns
Last Line: Libyssa, or salmydessus.
Subject(s): Grammar


I cannot master the common nouns
With their shading, precisive meanings.
But the proper nouns --
I need not understand them,
Not even place them,
I have but to see, to hear, to image them,
And immediately they blare
Or ring sonorous;
Each reverberating, dissolving, in ten thousand echoes,
Each word, whether it be
Ermintrude, Kenya, or Alor Star,
Libyssa, or Salmydessus.





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