Tuesday, February 25, 2014

RUTH PITTER
1897-1992

You were traditional
in your passion
once Bohemian
as is a poet's fashion

Form and formal
in your time of promise
Orphic yet so normal
yet no doubting Thomas

Loved by Tom Gunn
and John Wain
critics know your life
was not in vain.



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