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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVOCATION, by JANE RICHTER
First Line: Swiftly dispose of all this web of youth
Last Line: Bitter wind mocks the precepts of the old.
First Line: Swiftly dispose of all this web of youth
Last Line: Bitter wind mocks the precepts of the old.
"Swiftly dispose of all this web of youth
That weaves you to an iridescent past;
These letters, books are not the present truth
But only thin laments for things once fast.
Cleanly emerge from the cracked chrysalis
Of vanished personalities, and stand
Knowing not what was, conscious of what is,
Fearful and naked in an adult land."
In vain do I invoke the trembling heart.
Too well it knows the dark and blinding fear
That in this ordered world I have no part,
In spite of life am still an alien here.
I strip myself of youth but now a cold
Bitter wind mocks the precepts of the old.
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