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Allen Tate

I lived from 1899-1979. I was from the USA, and am in the Americas category.

I influenced poet John Crowe Ransom.

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  • The Eye
    To E. E. Cummings
    I see the horses and the sad streets
    40 lines
  • Aeneas At Washington
    I myself saw furious with blood
    Neoptolemus, at his side the black Atridae,
    39 lines
  • Ode To The Confederate Dead
    Row after row with strict impunity
    The headstones yield their names to the element,
    92 lines
  • Last Days Of Alice
    Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,
    Declines upon her lost and twilight age;
    36 lines
  • Mr. Pope
    When Alexander Pope strolled in the city
    Strict was the glint of pearl and ''old sedans.
    16 lines
  • Death Of Little Boys
    When little boys grown patient at last, weary,
    Surrender their eyes immeasurably to the night,
    23 lines
  • The Mediterranean
    Quem das finem, rex magne, dolorum?
    Where we went in the boat was a long bay
    37 lines
  • A Carrion
    (From the French of Charles Baudelaire)
    Remember now, my Love, what piteous thing
    60 lines
  • Winter Mask
    To the memory of W. B. Yeats
    I
    72 lines
  • Correspondences
    (From the French of Charles Baudelaire)
    All nature is a temple where the alive
    18 lines
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