Allen Tate Poems on Sense & Perception 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 ...

I. A DREAMAt nine years a sickly boy lay downAt bedtime on a cot by mother's bedAnd as the two ...

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

I have looked at them long,My eyes blur; sourceless lightKeeps them forever youngBefore our ageing sight.You see them-too strict formsOf ...

In the twilight of my audacityI saw you flee the world, the burnt highwaysOf summer gave up their light: IFollowed ...

When the night's coming and the last light fallsA weak child among lost shadows on the floor,It is your listening: ...

(From the French of Charles Baudelaire)All nature is a temple where the alivePillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;Man ...

If thine eye offend thee, pluck it outIf your tired unspeaking headRivet the dark with linear sight,Crazed by a warlock ...

Allen Tate Poems on Sense & Perception (10 Poems)