Friday, June 28, 2019

Show Me the Place, 87


“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

87: Portland, Maine—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House; Spring 2002

I drove one year to Portland, Maine—
I guess I really should explain:

I’d gone to see another place
Where Longfellow had left a trace—

An early home—a museum now—
Such fame results in this somehow.

A famous poem takes place there—
It’s “My Lost Youth,” and (if you care)

I’ve memorized it—took a while—
But now it’s in my memory file!

Link to poem.





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