Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EMBRYO, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND First Line: I feel a poem in my heart tonight Last Line: Will be the better! Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
I FEEL a poem in my heart to-night, A still thing growing, -- As if the darkness to the outer light A song were owing: A something strangely vague, and sweet, and sad, Fair, fragile, slender; Not tearful, yet not daring to be glad, And oh, so tender! It may not reach the outer world at all, Despite its growing; Upon a poem-bud such cold winds fall To blight its blowing. But, oh, whatever may the thing betide, Free life or fetter, My heart, just to have held it till it died, Will be the better! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND |
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