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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO CERTAIN OF ONE'S ELDERS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, too listless to examine Last Line: Than go ambling with the ague. | |||
You, too listless to examine If in pestilence or famine Death lurk least, a hungry gamin Gnawing on you like a beaver On a root, while you trifle Time away nodding in the sun, Careless how the shadows crawl Surely up your crumbling wall, Heedless of the Thief's footfall, Death's whose nimble fingers rifle Your heart beats one by weary one -- Here's the difference in our dying: You go dawdling, I go flying. Here's a thought flung out to plague you: Mine the pleasure if I'd liefer Burn completely with the fever Than go ambling with the ague. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BROWN GIRL DEAD by COUNTEE CULLEN LIFE TO LOVE by COUNTEE CULLEN THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE by COUNTEE CULLEN WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS by COUNTEE CULLEN EPITAPH: FOR A FOOL by COUNTEE CULLEN EPITAPH: FOR ONE WHO GAILY SOWED HIS OATS by COUNTEE CULLEN EPITAPH: FOR A WANTON by COUNTEE CULLEN EPITAPH: FOR A PREACHER by COUNTEE CULLEN EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER by COUNTEE CULLEN EPITAPH: FOR A VIRGIN LADY by COUNTEE CULLEN |
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