can evoke the same enduring, compelling themes as his history poems: loneliness and loss, the nature of nobility, the ravages of time, the power of pleasure, and the fleeting nature of happiness. The unfinished, exquisite poem "The Photograph" begins with a speaker looking at a former lover's "beautiful youthful face":(lost forever more; - the photograph
was dated 'Ninety-two),
the sadness of what passes came upon him.
And yet he is glad the two of them "didn't let any foolish shame/get in the way of their love, or make it ugly."
from John Timpane: Philadelpia Inquirer: Poems from a Greek master
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