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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAP OF AN UNKNOWN REGION, by IRENE WILDE
First Line: Regard this matchless chart, the body, trace
Last Line: Its shy inhabitant remains a stranger.
First Line: Regard this matchless chart, the body, trace
Last Line: Its shy inhabitant remains a stranger.
Regard this matchless chart, the body, trace
The streams and tributaries, veined in blue
Across its pink and coral surface, view
The longitudes of bone in ordered space.
Observe the boundaries of air that race
In sapphire surf about its capes, construe
The legend which the great cartographer drew
Within the circle of an eye's embrace.
These bearings designate a realm unknown,
Mysterious as the moon, besieged with thunder
Of muffled jungle rhythms hinting danger.
A Balearic loveliness is strewn
Across its beaches intricate with wonder --
Its shy inhabitant remains a stranger.
Other Poems of Interest...
THE MAGIC FLUTE by IRENE WILDE
THE SILLER CROUN by SUSANNA BLAMIRE
THE SLEEP by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
LESSER EPISTLES: TO BERNARD LINTOTT by JOHN GAY
THE FOURTH OF JULY by JOHN PIERPONT
WITH ILLUSTRATION TO GRAY'S POEMS by WILLIAM BLAKE