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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILVER FOREST, by ELEANOR M. DENNY First Line: How long since the red ruin ran its tongue Last Line: A silver dream of forests long ago. Subject(s): Mount Rainier | |||
How long since the red ruin ran its tongue Up your strong torsos, down your pendant arms (Where a spiked, plumy greenness crept and clung In beauty), till beneath the fiery harms Writhing, they dropped in blackened mass below, Leaving but ravage where loveliness had stood? Tragic memorial of beauty's foe, Bleak cenotaph to man's foolhardihood! How long? But now against the radiant blue, A phantom host, you lift slim, flame-stripped boles; And, slain, a more transcendent life renew In these upreaching, luminous white souls -- Spectral they stand against the enhaloing glow, A silver dream of forests long ago. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOUNT RAINIER by HERBERT BASHFORD MT. RANIER by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP MOUNT TACOMA by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR MOUNT RAINIER by BENEDICT AUER VENUS IN A GARDEN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST by EDITH SITWELL SLEEPLESS NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE DAY: MORNING by JOHN CUNNINGHAM THE HELMSMAN by HILDA DOOLITTLE THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
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