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Guest column
And think no more of what mil come to pass Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass And chattering on the air.
Practice your beauty, blue girls, before it fail; And I will cry with my loud lips and publish Beauty which all our power shall never establish It is so frail.
For I could tell you a story which is true; I know a lady with a terrible tongue, Blear eyes fallen from blue, All her perfections tarnished — yet it is not long Since she was lovelier than any of you.
As have other poets, Ransom captures fleeting beauty in his lament over its flower-like nature.
During most of the first half of this century, John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was a beloved and inspiring poet, critic, editor and teacher at Vanderbilt University and Kenyon College. His leadership on the Southern literary scene, in company with his friends John Peale Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren, made literary history. How remarkable that from among these poets, Robert Penn Warren (b. 1905) survives and has recently been made our nation’s first Poet Laureate!
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