For My Contemporaries
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J.V. Cunningham was born in Cumberland, Maryland in 1911. He completed high school in 1927, but his education was interrupted by the death of his . . . MORE »
J.V. Cunningham was born in Cumberland, Maryland in 1911. He completed high school in 1927, but his education was interrupted by the death of his . . . MORE »
By J. V. Cunningham
How time reverses
The proud in heart!
I now make verses
Who aimed at art.
But I sleep well.
Ambitious boys
Whose big lines swell
With spiritual noise,
Despise me not!
And be not queasy
To praise somewhat:
Verse is not easy.
But rage who will.
Time that procured me
Good sense and skill
Of madness cured me.
J. V. Cunningham, “For My Contemporaries” from The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams. Copyright © 1960 by J. V. Cunningham. Reprinted with the permission of Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, Athens, Ohio.