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"Less gay than whistful"
Posted by: Linda (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: November 04, 2021 04:36PM
This poem is from Verse and Worse a collection by Arnold Silcock. It is given as by Anon and I wondered if the poet had subsequently been found.
True is the saying, that in common lives
There dies a poet and the man survives.
In some he dies hard, and, before he dies,
Keeps in the half-extinguished spirit-eyes
Just sight enough to know he cannot see;
And so the poet that still breathes in me
And strives his fitful essence to prolong,
Once, to the joy departing, made this song.
True is the saying, that in common lives
There dies a poet and the man survives.
In some he dies hard, and, before he dies,
Keeps in the half-extinguished spirit-eyes
Just sight enough to know he cannot see;
And so the poet that still breathes in me
And strives his fitful essence to prolong,
Once, to the joy departing, made this song.
Re: "Less gay than whistful"
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-05rh15-16rt.co.dial-access.att.net)
Date: November 04, 2021 05:12PM
Re: "Less gay than whistful"
Posted by: lg (---.ca.charter.com)
Date: January 17, 2022 10:42AM
Now I've heard of everything. Different strokes for different folks...
Les
Les
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