February 1958

Poem

From the magazine:
Mirror

By James Merrill

I grow old under an intensity
Of questioning looks. Nonsense,
I try to say, I cannot teach you children
How to live.—If not you, who will?
Cries one of them aloud, grasping my gilded
Frame till the world sways. If not you, who will?
Between their...

Poem

From the magazine:
S.P.Q.R.—A Letter from Rome

By John Ciardi

Poem

From the magazine:
Hero Speech

By Muriel Rukeyser

February 1958

From this Issue

From the magazine:
Mirror

From the magazine:
S.P.Q.R.—A Letter from Rome

From the magazine:
Hero Speech

Table of Contents

February 1958

From this Issue

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Mirror

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:S.P.Q.R.—A Letter from Rome

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Hero Speech

Table of Contents

From the magazine:
Mirror

From the magazine:
S.P.Q.R.—A Letter from Rome

From the magazine:
Hero Speech