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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A RESTAURANT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wears a red rose in his buttonhole Last Line: On rose-red seas of melody aswim. Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners | |||
He wears a red rose in his buttonhole, A city-clerk on Sunday dining out: And as the music surges over the din The heady quavering of the violin Sings through his blood, and puts old cares to rout, And tingles, quickening, through his shrunken soul, Till he forgets his ledgers, and the prim Black, crabbed figures, and the qualmy smell Of ink and musty leather and leadglaze, As, in eternities of Summer days, He dives through shivering waves, or rides the swell On rose-red seas of melody aswim. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE GLORIOUS YEMEN RESTAURANT by KHALED MATTAWA HOMAGE TO H & THE SPEEDWAY DINER by BERNADETTE MAYER ALL-NITE LUNCHROOM by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS MONA'S TACO by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE INITIAL CONDITIONS by MARVIN BELL DINNER IN A QUICK LUNCH ROOM by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET |
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