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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EARLY GRAVES, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK Poet's Biography First Line: Be welcome, oh silvery moon Last Line: Looked upon roseate dawns, shimmering nights! | |||
Be welcome, oh silvery moon, Quiet, beautiful friend of night! Flee'st thou? Hasten not, stay, oh spirit-friend! Lo, now she stays, only clouds wandered away. The waking of May is alone Fairer still than the summer night, When the dew, clear as light, from her tresses drips, When she, ascending the hill, ruddily glows. Ye nobler ones! Gloomily grows On your tombstones the sober moss! Happy I was, alas, when I still with you Looked upon roseate dawns, shimmering nights! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY RECOVERY by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK THE LAKE OF ZURICH by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK THE OLD SQUIRE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK BUDMOUTH DEARS by THOMAS HARDY A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE AN INTERVIEW WITH MILES STANDISH by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL NIGHT LAUGHTER by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) |
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