(Joseph Auslander, poet laureate, 1937-1941)
PROTEST
I will not make a sonnet from
Each little private martyrdom;
Nor out of love left dead with time
Construe a stanza or a rhyme.
We do not suffer to afford
The searched for and the subtle word.
There is too much that may not be
At the caprice of prosody.
~ Joseph Auslander (1897-1965), American poet, translator, and novelist
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