Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AN AMERICAN POET, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, poet, take these thanks too long deferred Last Line: The honour and the glory of the muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
TAKE, Poet, take these thanks too long deferred -- You that have made me richer year by year, Across the vast and desert waters drear Wafting your marriage-chimes of thought and word, Your true-born, truthful songs. Not April bird Utters abroad his wisdom morning-clear From fuller heart. Still sing with note sincere, And English pure as English air hath heard. And so, though all the fops of style misuse Our great brave language -- tricking out with beads This noble vesture that no frippery needs -- Help still to save, while Time around him strews Old shards of empire, and much dust of creeds, The honour and the glory of the muse. | 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 |
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