Carolina magazine [serial] . -4 22 \> To Certain Immortal Women By Leslie Gordon OPry (Rizpah, who lived about 1,020 , was a concubine in the court of Ishboseth, son ofSaul, whose Northern Kingdom was in opposition to that of David in the South. Jealousyover her charms caused Ishboseths betrayal by his Commander-in-Chief and the subsequentmurder of both men.) I will not believe you dead, Lying, a mummy, cold and ashy grayIn some sealed tomb, beneath the lead Of age-packed sand. The dayLong passed, when captains sold their kings the while They threw rich empires at your nodAnd showered t
Carolina magazine [serial] . -4 22 \> To Certain Immortal Women By Leslie Gordon OPry (Rizpah, who lived about 1,020 , was a concubine in the court of Ishboseth, son ofSaul, whose Northern Kingdom was in opposition to that of David in the South. Jealousyover her charms caused Ishboseths betrayal by his Commander-in-Chief and the subsequentmurder of both men.) I will not believe you dead, Lying, a mummy, cold and ashy grayIn some sealed tomb, beneath the lead Of age-packed sand. The dayLong passed, when captains sold their kings the while They threw rich empires at your nodAnd showered the worth of nations on your smile. You, blasted by an indignant GodStill live, Rizpah. Your cow-eyed glance, The painted lips which frameYour small caresses. Still your fevered dance Fashions a toast, in low hearts, of your dead? No—men yet slit their fellows throatOver your smile, and clutching you, still 23 {=- White Buildings: Poems by Hart Crane. With a foreword by Allen York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. $ Professor Saintsbury has said of modern literature that it is characterized bya vagabond curiosity of matter and a tormented unrest of style. In poetry thisunrest has called into being a multiplicity of methods; all directed towards thediscovery of a modality complete in itself, separable from living relationships,justifying its existence by its existence. But poetry itself is discovery and notmethod, and discovery will always elude the critics analysis. Methods may bedissected, but discoveries carry a virgin and immaculate armour. This is the doubledifficulty that confronts the reader of such a poet as Hart Crane. His poems areat once individual modalties and violent discoveries. Perhaps it is unfortunatethat the tormented unrest and vagabond curiosity have not given birth to a morepenetrable modality possessing the quality of discovery that makes the poetry ofHart
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