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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO PIECES AFTER SUETONIUS: 1. APOLOGY FOR DOMITIAN, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poet's Biography
First Line: He was not bad, as emperors go, not really
Last Line: It gets is at night, and from his old nurse, a woman poor, nonpolitical
First Line: He was not bad, as emperors go, not really
Last Line: It gets is at night, and from his old nurse, a woman poor, nonpolitical
Other Poems of Interest...
AFTER PARTING by SARA TEASDALE
THE JOURNEY by EMILY DICKINSON
THE MISTRESS; A SONG by JOHN WILMOT
PENITENTIAL PSALM: 130. DE PROFUNDIS by THOMAS WYATT
THE INDIAN UPON GOD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
TO HAFIZ by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
TO A BIRCH TREE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING
TWELVE SONNETS: 1. THY SWEETNESS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)