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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ETERNAL SHIPWRECK, by IWAN GOLL Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, nights, carry us far, you purple ships Last Line: Slipper-symphonies. Café au lait. Oh, man! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan | |||
Oh, nights, carry us far, you purple ships With velvet wings for sails, Bear us across to the gentle gulf of joy. We believe Sinbad gladly, that friend and king of dreams, We would sob to his viols. Ah, there remains a coast where we may never land: Stony day and sun thick as mist. There longing hangs dead upon the cross of the houses— You nights, you curving sail-couches, Remain on the kind sea of sleep! The harbor lures, the morning-bell, A bitter salt burns on our lips: the day! Heavily we lift our weary lashes. Odol beckons, blue on the dreary wash-stand. Slipper-symphonies. Café au lait. Oh, man! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOD'S GARDEN by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE QUESTION by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON CAELICA: 100 by FULKE GREVILLE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE by EZRA POUND DECEMBER 31ST by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE SHADOWS by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. A BURIAL-PLACE by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |
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