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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALIEN, by ADA HASTINGS HEDGES Poem Explanation First Line: This reach of sagebrush with its windy hill Last Line: Taking its flight among the listening stars. | |||
This reach of sagebrush with its windy hill Framed by my doorway, is a troubled place Known only to my dreams, remembered still In daylight hours to haunt them for a space. It seems that I shall presently awake In some azalea-scented dark once more, Where swans are drifting down a quiet lake, Curving their silver arc along the shore. And faintly now I almost thought I heard -- As one would hear across the verge of sleep -- Out of the grey wind's sudden lull, in bars Of gold, the slender rapture of a bird -- A rift of joy that no wild throat could keep, Taking its flight among the listening stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAST LINES OF THOMAS INGOLDSBY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM GOLIATH AND DAVID by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE ONE GRAY HAIR by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR WORDLY WISE (5) by MOTHER GOOSE MESSMATES by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE BAYADERE by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS |
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