Explore "Campus Sonnets:" by Stephen Vincent Benet on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
1. Before an Examination
The little letters dance across the page, / Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes; / Sick of the strain, the glaring light, I rise / Yawning and stretching, full of empty rage / At the dull maunderings of a long dead sage, / Fling up the windows, fling aside his lies; / Choosing to breathe, not stifle and be wise, / And let the air pour in upon my cage.