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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LULLABY FOR A TIRED LADY, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF
First Line: Is there any need so deep
Last Line: Distant, sober, uniform.
Subject(s): Sleep; Spinsters; Old Maids
First Line: Is there any need so deep
Last Line: Distant, sober, uniform.
Subject(s): Sleep; Spinsters; Old Maids
Is there any need so deep?
Sleep, I think, only sleep.
Only sleep and music move
Bosoms travel-stained with love.
Only they relax the brow,
Weary now, weary now --
Wash in even rhythms -- flow
Over Time's "I told you so,"
While the pageant past becomes
So much noise of dying drums,
Like the rumble of a storm --
Distant, sober, uniform.
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