Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I SHOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN A BALLAD WORLD, by EDA LOU WALTON First Line: I should like to live as a ballad maid Last Line: Of a fate six stanzas long. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
I should like to live as a ballad maid Who loves, is loved, and dies, Or bears four sons as a matron staid To her lord's amazed eyes. Birth, and youth, and womanhood, Ripe lips and golden hair, Death and a lover understood, And a black silk shroud to wear; And all the long years left untold The long hours left unsaid, While swift, rare moments of life unfold Bronze and silver and red. I should like to live in a ballad world While vivid lips of song My leaping, lingering tale unfurled Of a fate six stanzas long. | 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 HIDDEN RHYTHM by EDA LOU WALTON |
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