Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWN, by CARLA LANYON LANYON First Line: We have propped ourselves against Last Line: To shut it out. Subject(s): Towns | ||||||||
We have propped ourselves against The crowd, and grown afraid Of wings, and starlight, and the things We have not made. So do we speed the slow blue birth Of night with lights, and take Neat paving-stones to hide the earth We could not make. And since there comes, if silence falls, A sudden splash of doubt, We fashion drums and wheels and walls To shut it out. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAIL TEESSIDE! by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN by JAMES GALVIN A TOWN DEDICATED TO THE PURSUIT OF FITNESS & INNER PEACE by ANSELM HOLLO AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WHAT COULD HAPPEN by DORIANNE LAUX TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT by ELENI SIKELIANOS |
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