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J.V. Cunningham: 20th century epigrams
His precision in meter, form and image places him squarely in the neo-classicist camp
- Ars Amoris
- Speak to her heart!
- That manic force
- When wits depart
- Forbids remorse.
- Dream with her dreaming
- Until her lus t
- Seems to her seeming
- An act of trust!
- Do without doing!
- Love’s wilful potion
- Veils the ensuing,
- And brief, commotion.
- Choice
- Allegiance is assigned
- Forever when the mind
- Chooses and stamps the will.
- Thus, I must love you still
- Through good and ill.
- But though we cannot part
- We may retract the heart
- And build such privacies
- As self-regard agrees
- Conduce to ease.
- So manners will repair
- The ravage of despair
- Which generous love invites,
- Preferring quiet nights
- To vain delights.
- Montana Pastoral
- I am no shepherd of a child’s surmises.
- I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises,
- Thirst where the grasses burn in early May
- And thistle, mustard, and the wild oat stay.
- There is dust in this air. I saw in the heat
- Grasshoppers busy in the threshing wheat.
- So to this hour. Through the warm dusk I drove
- To blizzards sifting on the hissing stove,
- And found no images of pastoral will,
- But fear, thirst, hunger, and this huddled chill.
J.V. Cunningham
J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985) was an American poet whose precision in meter, form and image places him squarely in the neo-classicist camp of poets. His style was fashioned after the Latin poets – such as Catullus and Horace – and he was especially adept at the epigram – a brief and direct poem which addressed a wide range of subjects drawn from personal experience. According to critic and fellow poet Hayden Carruth, Cunningham’s epigrams largely rehabilitated this all-but-lost poetic form in the 20th century.
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J.V. Cunningham: 20th century epigrams
His precision in meter, form and image places him squarely in the neo-classicist camp
J.V. Cunningham: 20th century epigrams
His precision in meter, form and image places him squarely in the neo-classicist camp
- Ars Amoris
- Speak to her heart!
- That manic force
- When wits depart
- Forbids remorse.
- Dream with her dreaming
- Until her lus t
- Seems to her seeming
- An act of trust!
- Do without doing!
- Love’s wilful potion
- Veils the ensuing,
- And brief, commotion.
- Choice
- Allegiance is assigned
- Forever when the mind
- Chooses and stamps the will.
- Thus, I must love you still
- Through good and ill.
- But though we cannot part
- We may retract the heart
- And build such privacies
- As self-regard agrees
- Conduce to ease.
- So manners will repair
- The ravage of despair
- Which generous love invites,
- Preferring quiet nights
- To vain delights.
- Montana Pastoral
- I am no shepherd of a child’s surmises.
- I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises,
- Thirst where the grasses burn in early May
- And thistle, mustard, and the wild oat stay.
- There is dust in this air. I saw in the heat
- Grasshoppers busy in the threshing wheat.
- So to this hour. Through the warm dusk I drove
- To blizzards sifting on the hissing stove,
- And found no images of pastoral will,
- But fear, thirst, hunger, and this huddled chill.
J.V. Cunningham
J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985) was an American poet whose precision in meter, form and image places him squarely in the neo-classicist camp of poets. His style was fashioned after the Latin poets – such as Catullus and Horace – and he was especially adept at the epigram – a brief and direct poem which addressed a wide range of subjects drawn from personal experience. According to critic and fellow poet Hayden Carruth, Cunningham’s epigrams largely rehabilitated this all-but-lost poetic form in the 20th century.
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