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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAY-STAR, by NORMA JEAN BUNTING First Line: Twilight is mournful on the hill Last Line: The finished work is but begun. | |||
Twilight is mournful on the hill. 'Tis murmured Saturn squares with Mars, But who knows any woman's will? Twilight is mournful. (On the hill Carnival reigns.) Here, gaunt and ill, John dreams his dreams. Behind his bars Twilight is mournful. On the hill 'Tis murmured Saturn squares with Mars... Herod the gross and -- Philip's wife: Philip's wife, with a smouldering hate For a lean fanatic that stirs up strife! Herod the gross, and Philip's wife, And little Salome, in love with life! (A long-lashed smile for a prophet's fate!) Herod the gross and Philip's wife -- Philip's wife, with a smouldering hate! Dance on, Salome, where Herod sprawls. The finished work is but begun -- A tendril that shall break these walls! Dance on, Salome! Where Herod sprawls, A death's-head moth, bewildered, falls... Who runs may read, (but these are none!) Dance on, Salome. Where Herod sprawls The finished Work is but begun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RAHEL TO VARNHAGEN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON A WINTER NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT CHILD AND MOTHER by EUGENE FIELD ODE ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER by JORGE MANRIQUE HOLYHEAD, SEPTEMBER 25, 1727 by JONATHAN SWIFT BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE by WALT WHITMAN THE LADY UNKNOWN by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK |
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