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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lad whose life is pure and clean Last Line: And love its cardiac motive power. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Reading | |||
A LAD whose life is pure and clean— His stuff is cosmic, sempiternal; Whether in Harper's Magazine Or in the so-called Evening Journal. He needs no 24-point blurb, His verse requires no Gothic 10-point, For folks to say, "Believe me, Herb, Some ooze comes off of that guy's pen point!" I wrote some poetry at home— I lived, you know, at Sabine Junction— A wolf came up and glimpsed my pome, And slammed the door with vulpine unction. A big, big, big, big wolf was he: (And if you crave corroboration, Look up Ode 22 and see The difficulties of translation.) Lived I where Kipling pens his rhymes, Or where Le Gallienne pens his stanzas; And worked I for the London Times, Or for a sheet in Howell, Kansas— Oh, ship me to some desert isle Or leave me in my Conning Tower, Still shall I sing my Carrie's smile And love its cardiac motive power. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO SONNETS: 1 by DAVID LEHMAN THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE by DENISE LEVERTOV FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL POETRY MACHINES by CATE MARVIN LENDING LIBRARY by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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