Christopher Morley

Here you will find the Poem At the Mermaid Caffeteria of poet Christopher Morley

At the Mermaid Caffeteria

TRUTH is enough for prose: 
Calmly it goes 
To tell just what it knows.

For verse, skill will suffice- 
Delicate, nice 
Casting of verbal dice.

Poetry, men attain 
By subtler pain 
More flagrant in the brain-

An honesty unfeigned, 
A heart unchained, 
A madness well restrained.