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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SUNRISE OF THE POOR, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poet's Biography First Line: A darkened hut outlined against the sky Last Line: It is the call to labor, -- not death. | |||
A DARKENED hut outlined against the sky, A forward-looking slope, -- some cedar trees, Gaunt grasses stirred by the awaking breeze, And nearer, where the grayer shadows lie, Within a small paled square, one may descry The beds wherein the Poor first taste of ease, Where dewy rose-vines drop their spicy lees Above the dreamless ashes, silently. A lonely woman leans there, -- bent and gray: Outlined in part against the shadowed hill, In part against the sky, in which the day Begins to blaze. O earth, so sweet, -- so still! -- The woman sighs, and draws a long, deep breath: It is the call to labor, -- not death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEAD PLAYER by ROBERT BURNS WILSON TO A CROW by ROBERT BURNS WILSON DR. SCUDDER'S CLINICAL LECTURE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS NIGHT PIECE (2) by EDITH SITWELL THE SONG OF THE SMOKE by WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS TO JOHN DONNE (2) by BEN JONSON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 104 by ALFRED TENNYSON ROMANCE by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 18. TO THE HON. FRANCIS EARL OF HUNTINGDON by MARK AKENSIDE |
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