Thursday, February 08, 2024
With Severe Reprehension
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), "Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A.," lines 2-4, in his New and Selected Poems 1923-1985 (New York: Random House, 1985), pp. 282-283 (at 282):
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They stare from daguerreotype with severe reprehension,
Or from genuine oil, and you'd never guess any pain
In those merciless eyes that now remark our own time's sad declension.
