Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLAINTIVE ECHOES, by SYLVIA ELDRIDGE First Line: To-day my heart / is a haunted manor Last Line: My hopeful thoughts! Subject(s): Old Age | ||||||||
I To-day my heart is a haunted manor frightened at its own mournfulness. Ghosts of dead memories wander, disconsolate, rattling behind them enormous chains. ... II. To-day the sun is bold and cynical; its mocking rays play roguishly upon old women's eyes as on rusty lattices and with impish hilarity mirrors their wrinkled faces. ... III. To-day, my lips tightly-shut portals to a sombre prison are guarding gloomily its deluded inmates my hopeful thoughts! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS ALLEGRETTO (TO BEATRICE MORTON) by SYLVIA ELDRIDGE |
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