John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee – July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio) was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.

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    Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    Soldier: Hey colonel, I got me a prisoner. What should I do with him?
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    Do not enforce the tired wolf
    Dragging his infected wound homeward
    To sit tonight with the warm children
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    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    —I am a lady young in beauty waiting
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    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)