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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STAG AT BAY, by BIMSLEY PEABODY
First Line: Oh, how I long for the things
Last Line: A drab world at bay.
Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy
First Line: Oh, how I long for the things
Last Line: A drab world at bay.
Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy
Oh, how I long for the things
This city could show me, --
Exotic folks who wear high red boots,
And knew Russia.
Writers gathered together to smoke,
Wit easy and general.
Explorers in science who talk of vastness
And give you things to remember
And wonder about,
First thing when you wake
The next morning.
Around me are small drab folks,
Dulled by physical labor
and warped with their burdens,
Unable to recognize in a neighbor
Imagination, like a stag,
Trying to hold
A drab world at bay.
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