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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EARLY GRAVES, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK Poet's Biography First Line: Be welcome, oh silvery moon Last Line: Looked upon roseate dawns, shimmering nights! | |||
Be welcome, oh silvery moon, Quiet, beautiful friend of night! Flee'st thou? Hasten not, stay, oh spirit-friend! Lo, now she stays, only clouds wandered away. The waking of May is alone Fairer still than the summer night, When the dew, clear as light, from her tresses drips, When she, ascending the hill, ruddily glows. Ye nobler ones! Gloomily grows On your tombstones the sober moss! Happy I was, alas, when I still with you Looked upon roseate dawns, shimmering nights! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY RECOVERY by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK THE LAKE OF ZURICH by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK THE WILLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 51. WILLOWWOOD (3) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106 by ALFRED TENNYSON DESERT NIGHT by FRANCES DAVIS ADAMS |
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