BEAUTY Birches by Robert Frost But I was going to say when Truth broke in / With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm / I should prefer to have some boy bend them / As he went out and in to fetch the cows—
members Someone to Watch Over Me "Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters." -- Shelly
LITERATURE AMERICAN PROPHECY: The Try Works by Herman Melville (with my emphasis added) ". . .Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul."
