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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTIPHONY, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS First Line: O heart, no longer mourn; behold the hills Last Line: Wind stripped, rain-laved of cerements of sand. | |||
O Heart, no longer mourn; behold the hills, How radiant they greet the Easter dawn! Come, reverently, while the silence fills The kneeling valleys with her carillon. These mountains witness immortality: They knew strange death, ordealed by ice and fire, Yet rose triumphant from their grave of sea, Transcending pristine heights to climb still higher, Relinquishing a worn-out robe of gray For sable forests and a crown of frost. And if death like a sea embrace this clay Some instant, never fear the sun be lost! You shall arise! You shall arise to stand Wind stripped, rain-laved of cerements of sand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOONBLIND by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS OLD WOMEN TREES by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS THE SALMON GILLERS by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS I'VE NOTHING TO OFFER by DAVID IGNATOW SPRING ON BROADWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES A CHILD'S PRAYER [OR, HYMN] by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE by EUGENE FIELD THE LAST SIGNAL by THOMAS HARDY BATTLE OF IVRY by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY |
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