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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VARIATIONS: 16, by CONRAD AIKEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against an orange twilight sky Last Line: The streetlamp gleams like an evil eye. Subject(s): Nature | |||
Against an orange twilight sky The street lamp gleams like clearer fire, The cold wind spills the huddling leaves, And cold bells, in the sombre spire, Shake the wind with a savage sound . . . The streetlamp gleams like a golden eye. This dust will be possessed of tongues, These leaves will find a million voices, These stones will murmur and seize our feet, These boughs of trees will writhe and beat . . . Against an orange twilight sky The streetlamp burns like a golden eye. The earth's edge, growing black, swings up With sinister and enormous arc; The yellow star that came to swim Silently in the golden sky Is caught and crushed by that black rim . . . The streetlamp gleams like an evil eye. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN SPELL FOR ENCANTO CREEK by MARK JARMAN |
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