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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIMINUTIVE ULULANS, by FRANCIS MACNAMARA First Line: Wailing diminutive of me, be still Last Line: Perhaps forgive the vast impertinence. | |||
[To John Macnamara.] Wailing diminutive of me, be still; Or cry, but spare me that regretful tone,-- Of sorrows elemental waxing shrill, O you of living things the most alone! Son, do you thus reproach me and make moan, Because upon Love's chariot I did fly And a horn winded in the great unknown, Calling your atoms out to be an I? Should I have let you in abeyance lie, Disintegrate another million years? Then use your life to teach you how to die And pass again beyond the reach of tears, Some day you may regret I dragged you thence, Perhaps forgive the vast impertinence. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PICTURES OF MEMORY by ALICE CARY WINTER EVENING by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN LETTY'S GLOBE by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD by BERNARD BARTON THE VOICE FROM GALILEE by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR THE APPROACH OF COLD WEATHER by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES |
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