Allen Tate
Allen Tate
John Orley Allen Tate, known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 November 1899
CountryUnited States of America
Allen Tate quotes about
long
Death's long anabasis.
ham actors poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
lakes opaque saws
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....
night flames lasts
Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.
christmas lying love-you
Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped....
christmas hands fire
Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
wall heart lazy
The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
cities league four
Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
dark rocks cry
I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
hands darkness singing
I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn....
wind names yield
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection....
glasses church saint
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
love-you son boys
My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears....
horse leader faces
Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.