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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMATEURS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON First Line: Aloft among the gallery gods Last Line: A moment more to their embrace. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations | |||
ALOFT among the gallery gods, Whose peering faces crowd the night With muttered breath and mocking nods, There waits the Keeper of the Light. From out the pit the roll and crash Of music comes, and through the dark The spot pours down a blinding flash Upon its momentary mark. It is Pierrette that flutters there Alone, until there comes Pierrot;— Comes hissing, laughter and despair, And darkness blots them as they go. They tried, O God, how hard they tried; Though loveliness was theirs, and grace, The Keeper of the Light denied A moment more to their embrace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN 1917 - THE WAR CLASS by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON |
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