Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LET US TAKE LEAVE OF HASTE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography First Line: Let us take leave of haste awhile Last Line: Come, comrade, let us try! Subject(s): Calm; Greed; Haste; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Avarice; Cupidity | ||||||||
LET us take leave of haste awhile, And loiter, well content, With little pleasure to beguile, And small habiliment; -- Just a wide sweep of rain-washed sky, A flower, a bird-note sweet; Some easy trappings worn awry; Loose latchets for our feet; A wheaten loaf within our scrip; For drink the hillside spring, And for true heart-companionship The love of loitering. We want so much, and yet we need So very slight a store, But in the age's grip of greed We hurry more and more. The woodland weaves its gold-green net; The warm wind lazes by; Can we forego? can we forget? Come, comrade, let us try! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA RONDE DU DIABLE by AMY LOWELL WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY by ANNE SEXTON MARIE MIGNOT by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM ENTERTAINMENT by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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