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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVIL LANDSCAPE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE First Line: Beach of old bones - the tide gasps / death-knells Last Line: The mushrooms, their stools. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Evil; Landscape | |||
Beach of old bones-The tide gasps Death-knells: croaking sound on sound . . . -Pale marsh, where the moon swallows Big worms to make the night pass. -Calm of plague, where fever Burns . . . The cursed will-o'-the-wisp fades away. -Stinking grass where the hare Is a cowardly sorcerer who flees . . . -The white Washerwoman spreads out The dead's dirty linen In the sun of wolves . . . -The toads, Little melancholy chanters, With their colics poison The mushrooms, their stools. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE PLACE FOR NO STORY by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BEAUTY OF THINGS by ROBINSON JEFFERS VARIATIONS ON A NEO-CLASSIC THEME by DONALD JUSTICE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS KENNST DU DAS LAND by LEONIE ADAMS INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3 by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM SONNET: 19. ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES AFTER THE RAIN by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE |
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