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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AGLAVAINE, by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: Aglavaine came to the inn Last Line: Who find good quarters at an inn. | |||
Aglavaine came to the inn. They gave him the foulest room. He, with a heart to win Love like the rose for bloom, Slept with the rustling straw for bed And cobwebbed rafters overhead. Aglavaine's red-faced host Kept revel all night long; The barmaid was their toast, The devil's flings their song. Still through the noise he heard the leaves Tossed in the wind against the eaves. Aglavaine heard the choir Chant in the church unseen; Then, with a heart of fire For beauty fine and clean, Ate where a clown might loathe to dine, While all his fellows reeled with wine. Aglavaine came to the inn. Short was their speech and curt. He of the tender chin, Lonely and worn and hurt, Saw through his window-round of sky God's pageantry of stars go by. Aglavaine sang in the sun, Taking the morning road. His was the course begun, His but the firstling load. They travel far and sup with sin Who find good quarters at an inn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEWS FROM YORKTOWN by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH SONNET TO THOSE WHO SEE BUT DARKLY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON OLD TRAILS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON HAMATREYA by RALPH WALDO EMERSON A FINE DAY ON LOUGH SWILLY by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1824-1911) LET NO BIRD SING by VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT THESE TIMES by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT SUMMING UP ITALY; INSCRIBED TO INTELLIGENT PUBLICS OUT OF IT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO GEORGE BORROW (LAVENGRO) by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE TO A LADY, WHO SINGING RESEMBLED THAT OF AN ABSENT SISTER by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON UPON THE NOBLE LADY ASTONS DEPARTURE FOR SPAINE by MICHAEL DRAYTON |
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