Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1955

December 1955

 
  • Allen Mandelbaum
  • John Ashbery
  • Edwin Burrows
  • Paul Claudel
  • Rachel Crown
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Barges on the Hudson

Going up the river, or down, their tuneless look
Is of men grown poorer who, though ageing, wear
Some majesty of the commonplace. Old barges
Are cousin to those whom poverty becomes—
To late November, the north, nightfall, all the
Deprived whom increment of loss...
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