Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell Beneath the tinsel and the spell, The mimic glory of the stage, That thrills the crowd! Othello's rage, Insane Lear's mouthings, or the fell Complaints of Hamlet, scarce excel The tragedies no words may tell; The griefs no encores may assuage, Behind the scenes! There "properties" lie heaped, pell-mell, Whose grewsome shapes and shadows quell The heart of youth, the hopes of age, With terrors that no one may gauge, Save he who threads the gloomy cell Behind the scenes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN I WROTE A LITTLE by HAYDEN CARRUTH WOODSMOKE AT 70 by HAYDEN CARRUTH |