Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHARTED COURSE, by CLARA HYDE First Line: Always there will be waiting women, son Last Line: Penelope will thread the patient loom. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Sons; Women | ||||||||
Always there will be waiting women, son, with beauty's lure to trip your eager feet; eyes that are velvet soft and lips as sweet as purple plums in summer's halcyon and languid noon. Delilahs to be won only by supersacrifice, complete with your destruction and your sure defeat until your dreams have crashed oblivion. Nothing will stay you. Nothing that I can do will veer you from the course your chart has told; yet always, somewhere, waits a woman, too, with love past measure -- Brittany's Isolde -- and, hope undimmed within her cloistral room, Penelope will thread the patient loom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH |
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