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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESPOTISMS, by VIRGINIA STAIT
First Line: I would know not the despotism
Last Line: No stitch there must be in a shroud!
Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants
First Line: I would know not the despotism
Last Line: No stitch there must be in a shroud!
Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants
I would know not the despotism,
Of moonlight that lies quite unbroken,
In ivories swept of all flame;
Immitigate to the unspoken,
To white for the call of a name.
I would know not the despotism,
Of gold-haunted June, that is lonely,
Because it is done with the past;
That owns not a catafalque, only
This hour it is spending -- to last!
I would know not the despotism,
Of a sky, that is swept of all embers --
Not a mist, nor shadow nor cloud --
That festally clashing, remembers
No stitch there must be in a shroud!
Other Poems of Interest...
TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA
LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES by CAROLYN KIZER
EPITAPH ON A TYRANT by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C. by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS
AN EPISTLE TO CURIO by MARK AKENSIDE