Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CRIB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: I sought immortality
Last Line: Immortality!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Babies; Immortality; Infants


I SOUGHT immortality
Here and there --
I sent my rockets
Into the air:
I gave my name
A hostage to ink;
I dined a critic
And bought him drink.

I spurned the weariness
Of the flesh;
Denied fatigue
And began afresh --
If men knew all,
How they would laugh!
I even planned
My epitaph....

And then one night
When the dusk was thin
I heard the nursery
Rites begin:
I heard the tender
Soothings said
Over a crib, and
A small sweet head.

Then in a flash
It came to me
That there was my
Immortality!





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