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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DECEMBER'S GIFT, by DEBRA BRUCE First Line: By shrill decree, as the wind / wills, fall's / bequeathing, brooding | |||
By shrill decree, as the wind wills, fall's bequeathing, brooding beauty is arrested in crisp bequest. It costs a fortune to heat the house in which the child no longer roams in rooms festooned with hope. So why fribble with ribbons another year? Why struggle to unsnag those ancient lights? The arrogance from suffering in which you bask, insufferable to yourself, might pass; even you melt through, your record lows notwithstanding, your starkest days to date which January waits to laminate. http://www.wlu.edu/~shenano | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVELIGHT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DOW BRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS by KENNETH PATCHEN TWO SONNETS: 2 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE 1914: 3. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE HOME by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA |
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