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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO BROWNING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yellow betokens infidelity Last Line: Effrontery. Variant Title(s): Injudicious Gardening Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets | |||
IF yellow betokens infidelity, I am an infidel. I could not bear a yellow rose ill will Because books said that yellow boded ill, White promised well; However, your particular possession— The sense of privacy In what you did—deflects from your estate Offending eyes, and will not tolerate Effrontery. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB THIS IS TBE WAY TOADS TALK by MARIANNE MOORE |
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