Today’s Poem: Tichborne's Elegy

The wondrous one-hit, the life cut short

The Tower of London in a 15th-century manuscript (Wikimedia Commons)

“There’s something especially moving,” the poet Brad Leithauser wrote in a 2013 New Yorker essay, “about those poets who, in the mind of the individual reader, have effectively created one poem.” However many poems of Conrad Aiken you might read, really there’s only one poem: “Morning S…