U. Calderone: ‘Winterfaces’ and ‘On Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’

U. Calderone: ‘Winterfaces’ and ‘On Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’

Winterfaces The great lover and poet John Donne in his superb Love poetry, could not be outdone. He was also generous enough To see Beauty’s refined grace In an “Autumnall face”. But the poet was undone By “Winterfaces”, The ugliness whose “Mouthes are holes”. All wrought by time’s inexorable pace, The skin hanging like an