Introducing Irony (Version 2)

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">TWO SONNETS TO MY WIFE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <h3>I</h3></div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse"><div class="drop-cap2">BECAUSE her voice is Schönberg in a dream</div> </div> <div class="verse">In which his harshness plays with softer keys</div> <div class="verse">This does not mean that it is void of ease</div> <div class="verse">And cannot gather to a strolling gleam.</div> <div class="verse">Her voice is full of manners and they seem</div> <div class="verse">To place a masquerade on thought and tease</div> <div class="verse">Its strength until it finds that it has knees,</div> <div class="verse">And whimsically leaves its heavy scheme.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Discords can be the search of harmony</div> <div class="verse">For worlds that lie beyond the reach of poise</div> <div class="verse">And must be captured with abandoned hands.</div> <div class="verse">The music of my wife strives to be free</div> <div class="verse">And often takes a light, unbalanced voice</div> <div class="verse">While madly walking over thoughtful lands.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <h3>II</h3></div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse"><div class="drop-cap">MY wife relents to life and does not speak</div> </div> <div class="verse">Each moment with a deft and rapid note.</div> <div class="verse">Sometimes a clumsy weirdness finds in her throat</div> <div class="verse">And ushers in a music that is weak</div> <div class="verse">And bargains with the groping of her heart.</div> <div class="verse">But even then she plays with graver tones</div> <div class="verse">That do not sell themselves to laughs and moans</div> <div class="verse">But seek the counsel of a deeper art.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">She drapes her loud emotions in a shroud</div> <div class="verse">Of glistening thought that waves above their dance</div> <div class="verse">And sometimes parts to show their startled eyes.</div> <div class="verse">The depths of mind within her have not bowed</div> <div class="verse">To sleek emotion with its amorous glance.</div> <div class="verse">She slaps its face and laughs at its surprise!</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />