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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTIPHONY, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS First Line: O heart, no longer mourn; behold the hills Last Line: Wind stripped, rain-laved of cerements of sand. | |||
O Heart, no longer mourn; behold the hills, How radiant they greet the Easter dawn! Come, reverently, while the silence fills The kneeling valleys with her carillon. These mountains witness immortality: They knew strange death, ordealed by ice and fire, Yet rose triumphant from their grave of sea, Transcending pristine heights to climb still higher, Relinquishing a worn-out robe of gray For sable forests and a crown of frost. And if death like a sea embrace this clay Some instant, never fear the sun be lost! You shall arise! You shall arise to stand Wind stripped, rain-laved of cerements of sand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOONBLIND by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS OLD WOMEN TREES by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS THE SALMON GILLERS by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS SUPREME by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE LAST JUDGMENT by JOHN CROWE RANSOM TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: EPILOGUE by JOHN DRYDEN FREDERICK DOUGLASS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |
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