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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER NIGHT, by GOTTFRIED KELLER Poet's Biography First Line: Not a wing was beating in the night Last Line: In my mind it lingers evermore! | |||
Not a wing was beating in the night, Dazzling white and peaceful lay the snow, Not a cloud hung o'er the starry light, Frozen was the lake--all calm below. There a tree was growing from the deep, In the ice its crown was frozen fast; And the mermaid climbed the branches steep, Peering through the greenish ice at last. There I stood upon the glassy sheet-- Glass that barred me from that depth so dark; Well I could, beneath my very feet, All her white and wondrous beauty mark. At the hard, hard roof, from place to place, Still she gropes, from stitled anguish sore; I shall not forget that dusky face, In my mind it lingers evermore! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE EVENING by GOTTFRIED KELLER SUMMER NIGHT by GOTTFRIED KELLER THE CARPENTER'S SON by SARA TEASDALE PSALM 139 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE SHELLEY AND TRELAWNEY by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI CHARACTERS: MR. AND MRS. EDWARDS by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE LAY OF THE OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY; A LEGEND OF DOVER by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM A PRIZE FOR EURIPIDES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE by EDWARD CARPENTER STELLA by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL LA VITA NUOVA: SONNET OF BEATRICE DE PORTINARI, ON ALL SAINTS' DAY by DANTE ALIGHIERI |
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