Nature
The Monastery Croft
From The Triumph of Music (1888)
Nature
Big-stomached, like friars
Who ogle a nun,
Quaff deep to their bellies' desires
From the old abbey's tun,
Grapes fatten with fires
Warm-filtered from moon and from sun.
As a novice who muses,--
Lips a rosary tell,
While her thoughts are--a love she refuses?
--Nay! mourns as not well:
The ripe apple looses
Its holding to rot where it fell.
Cite this poem
MLA
Cawein, Madison. “The Monastery Croft.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cawein/854/.
Chicago
Cawein, Madison. “The Monastery Croft.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cawein/854/.
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