Allen Tate Poems on Faces Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtiethStation where time reverses his light heelsTo rim both ways, and makes of forward ...

An old soldier on the night before the veteransreunion talks partly to himself, partly to imaginary comrades:The people-people of my ...

To Andrew LytleParis, November 1929Their faces are bony and sharp but very red, althoughtheir ancestors nearly two hundred years have ...

Now all day long the man who is not deadHastens the dark with inattentive eyes,The woman with white hand and ...

I give the yawp barbaricOf piety and pelf(Who now reads Herrick?)And contradict myselfNo matter, the verse is large.My five-and-ten cent ...

The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,The meadow creeps implacable and still;A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.One ...

In memory of S. B. V., 1834-1909... so what the lame four-poster gathered hereBetween the lips of stale and seasoned ...

In Mem. L. N. L. Ob. MCMXXXIINoble beyond degreeIn a democracy:Slight woman whose spent graceBanishes their visionTo the thin trackless ...

There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless treeWith beards askew, their eyes dull and wildTwelve ragged men, the council ...

Say never the strong heartIn the consuming breathCries out unto the darkThe skinny death.Look! whirring on the rindOf aether a ...

The moon will run all consciences to cover,Night is now the easy peer of day;Little boys no longer sight the ...

This message hastens lest we both go downScattered, with no character, to death;Death is untutored, with an ignorant frownFor precious ...

Allen Tate Poems on Faces (12 Poems)