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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOOKS & READING, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poet Analysis First Line: These journals, notes, and missives of the dead Last Line: Save a small volume on the scholar's shelf. Subject(s): Books; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading | |||
These journals, notes, and missives of the dead -- These poems of all ages -- form a kind Of ever fresh ambrosia for the mind; And we like half-gods, as it were, cloud-fed On song and thought and parable, break bread With all the wits and poets of mankind, Who looked on life and left their souls behind With ours immortally companioned. Rather than honors, riches, and renown -- By heaven, I'd rather be like one of those! -- One who in thought so close enwrapped himself As to live penniless and die unknown, Leaving no record of his joys or woes, Save a small volume on the scholar's shelf. | 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 EARLY SPRING by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN |
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