Purgatory
by Maxine Kumin
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,
suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin
with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a
displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin.
His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum.
Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye.
Another Montague is in the womb
although the first babe’s bottom’s not yet dry.
She scrolls a weekly letter to her Nurse
who dares to send a smock through Balthasar,
and once a month, his father posts a purse.
News from Verona? Always news of war.
Such sour years it takes to right this wrong!
The fifth act runs unconscionably long.
End of the poem
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- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Sonnet 04 poem – John Milton poems
- St. Andrew’s Bay poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Looking Fire
- One Sweeps By. by Walt Whitman
- The Fruit Garden Path poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In A Garden by Sara Teasdale
- Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference by William Cowper
- Жан де Лафонтен – Садовод и Помещик
- Nailing by Mike Yuan
- Days and Nights by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Алексей Толстой – Рондо
- The One-Legged Man by Siegfried Sassoon
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