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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...IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS CINQUAIN: SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 5. NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI by SARA TEASDALE SMOKE IN WINTER by HENRY DAVID THOREAU THE OLD LOBSTERMAN by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 6. ON THE CORK PACKET, 1837 by T. BAKER |
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