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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET EXERCISE (2), by MARGARET HAYNES FOSTER First Line: What have you given me oh mighty muse Last Line: Through moonlight bent upon the wind and cloud. | |||
What have you given me oh mighty muse Who served you eyes and mouth and tooth and nail, Who burned my midnight oil to spread your news And backed my warm south wind against your sail? What have your phantom kisses ever brought But greater hunger to my virgin mouth? Where is the warm hand I have vainly sought From rim of frozen North to rim of South? When has my sorrow been for you the less? Oh I am sick of words of pen and ink, Of all your clamour in my constant breast, Sick of soul and brain and power to think. Give me a face whose Beauty speaks aloud Through moonlight bent upon the wind and cloud. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER DIVORCE; FOR NAHID SARMAD by KAREN SWENSON THE FOUNTAIN (2) by SARA TEASDALE HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES by THOMAS WYATT THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862 by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER MIANTOWONA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO HIS MISTRESS; AN ODE by ANACREON GHOSTS by MARION FRANCIS BROWN GRACE AFTER MEAT (2) by ROBERT BURNS ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF LORD GALLOWAY by ROBERT BURNS |
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