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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COTTONMOUTH, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD First Line: In this low, grey room Last Line: Burst flaming in my brain. | |||
In this low, grey room, I flinch at a bat's rasping teeth, While from the stair into the cellar, spirits come alluringly, murmuring soft as cobwebs that flutter noiselessly. They draw me irresistibly down upon the stair, where in an aura radiated by waving of its head an enchanter is intent. And it seems a fairy dancing in gossamer robings refulgent with purple and gold of images created on water by light. I know that, finally, I must halt, at the bottom of the stair, Enchantment coursing through me from beauty writhing at my feet. Imagining the white mouth a cereus, when I lean to fancied fragrance, fangs will crash into my face and a myriad electricities burst flaming in my brain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD MAN WHITTLES by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: COLUMBUS CHENEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SLEEP by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH SIGNS OF THE TIMES by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR IN THE TWILIGHT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A LETTER FROM A GIRL TO HER OWN OLD AGE by ALICE MEYNELL SONNET TO LIBERTY by OSCAR WILDE LINES by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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