Collected Poems, 1919-1976 by Allen Tate

Author:Allen Tate
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466884977
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Winter Mask

To the memory of W. B. Yeats

I

Towards nightfall when the wind

Tries the eaves and casements

(A winter wind of the mind

Long gathering its will)

I lay the mind’s contents

Bare, as upon a table,

And ask, in a time of war,

Whether there is still

To a mind frivolously dull

Anything worth living for.

II

If I am meek and dull

And a poor sacrifice

Of perverse will to cull

The act from the attempt,

Just look into damned eyes

And give the returning glare;

For the damned like it, the more

Damnation is exempt

From what would save its heir

With a thing worth living for.

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