<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Flame</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My old flame, my wife!<br>Remember our lists of birds?<br>One morning last summer, I drove<br>by our house in Maine. It was still<br>on top of its hill -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now a red ear of Indian maize<br>was splashed on the door.<br>Old Glory with thirteen stripes <br>hung on a pole. The clapboard<br>was old-red schoolhouse red.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inside, a new landlord,<br>a new wife, a new broom!<br>Atlantic seaboard antique shop<br>pewter and plunder<br>shone in each room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new frontier!<br>No running next door<br>now to phone the sheriff<br>for his taxi to Bath<br>and the State Liquor Store!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No one saw your ghostly <br>imaginary lover<br>stare through the window<br>and tighten<br>the scarf at his throat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Health to the new people,<br>health to their flag, to their old<br>restored house on the hill!<br>Everything had been swept bare,<br>furnished, garnished and aired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everything's changed for the best -<br>how quivering and fierce we were,<br>there snowbound together,<br>simmering like wasps<br>in our tent of books!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor ghost, old love, speak<br>with your old voice<br>of flaming insight<br>that kept us awake all night.<br>In one bed and apart,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we heard the plow<br>groaning up hill -<br>a red light, then a blue,<br>as it tossed off the snow<br>to the side of the road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Lowell">Robert Lowell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507815" data-title="The Old Flame de Robert Lowell" data-description="My old flame, my wife! Remember our lists of birds? One morning last summer, I drove by our house in Maine. It was still on top of its hill - Now a red ear of Indian maize was splashed on the door. Old Glory with thirteen stripes hung on a pole...."></div> </div> </div>

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