Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AGAINST THE MISER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS First Line: Never shall these be young again who say Last Line: Into rough golden breakers of the years to come! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age | ||||||||
Never shall these be young again who say that out of the flame of the earth, the sun, the flesh, the autumn bough, out of the dark of tears, the palm of love, the earth behind the plough, out of the winds across the fields of flowers and hay, they will arrest with miser mind each clear and perfect thing. Oh, pity these who walk about like sharp old women, shawled and aproned, fingering the amulet of memory's sum. Let them mark the young who lie on some strange shore within the deep embrace of beauty who will suddenly rise and laugh and leap into rough golden breakers of the years to come! | 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 |
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