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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 SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PENNIWIT, THE ARTIST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS IN THE SHADOWS: 2 by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) A SATIRICAL ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A LATE FAMOUS GENERAL by JONATHAN SWIFT THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 2, SCENE 1 by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE SOUL'S MUTINY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 4 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PRAYER by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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