Allen Tate Poems on Life 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 ...

An After-Dinner SpeechI rise, gentlemen, it is the pleasant hour.Darkness falls. The night falls. ...

(From the French of Charles Baudelaire)Remember now, my Love, what piteous thingWe saw on a summer's gracious day:By the roadside ...

To the memory of W. B. YeatsITowards nightfall when the windTries the eaves and casements(A winter wind of the mindLong ...

INow twenty-four or maybe twenty-fiveWas the woman's age, and her white brow was sleek;Lips parted in surprise, the flawless cheek;The ...

Variation on a Theme by CollinsLet the day glare: O memory, your treadBeats to the pulse of suffocating night-Night peering ...

Jefferson Davis: 1808-1889No more the white refulgent streets.Never the dry hollows of the mindShall he in fine courtesy walkAgain, for ...

There is a place that some men know,I cannot see the whole of itNor how I came there. Long agoFlame ...

This is the day His hour of life draws near,Let me get ready from head to foot for itMost handily ...

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, ...

Allen Tate Poems on Life (11 Poems)