Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle youth / by all availed Last Line: When hearts entwine! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age | ||||||||
Idle youth By all availed, Through delicacy My life has failed. Ah! for the time When hearts entwine. I told myself: leave, Let them see you no more: Nor with the promise Of higher reward. Let none impede Your austere retreat. I have had patience Unto forgetting; Dread and torment To the heavens are fled, And thirstings vile My veins defile. So does the prairie Given no heed Flourish, and blossom With darnel and weed To the insensate tone Of filthy-mouthed drone. Ah! thousand widowhoods Of poor soul bereft Of all but the image Of Our Lady blessed! Is it this way To the Virgin one prays? Idle youth By all availed, Through delicacy My life has failed. Ah! for the time When hearts entwine! | 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 A SEASON IN HELL, SELECTION by ARTHUR RIMBAUD |
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