Allen Tate

Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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    trees grope with itch for Spring
    go on and itch Trees you don’t know anything
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    John Brown of Ossawattamie
    Who died to set Abstraction free
    Stole Washington’s gold-handled sword
    Less for the gold than for the Lord....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Mary McDonald, you giggled as you passed—
    I wondered what the boy with hairy chest
    Carved on the wall of his inexpensive spirit
    Memorial to your infinite unrest.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    So was produced this tragedy
    In a far tower of ivory
    Where, O young men, late in the night
    All you who drink light and stroke the air
    Come back, seeking the night, and cry
    To strict Rapunzel to let down her hair.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Whether your kindness, mother,
    Is mother of silences.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)