This poem is taken from PN Review 19, Volume 7 Number 5, May - June 1981.
A Garland for Ronsard(1)
Green eyes from under cornsheaf curls
Dart out at him, belated
Masks of alarming Orpheus, gaping
And uncoordinated.
In dreams, in dreams . . . It is not true
They haunt the familiar Loir,
Capering their black classics of
Provence and Navarre.
Why then should laurels above the acclaimed
Brow and the haggard face
Divulge a restive Athenian, half
In love with incult Thrace?
(2) 'Dieu les tient agitez . . .
'These-of whom only four or five are known
To have existed, mostly Greek-aspire
Not to the style of poet, but the stele
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