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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 LINES BY CLAUDIA by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE WILD GAZELLE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DIRGE (1) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY INSPIRATION by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1822-1882) RUNNING THE BATTERIES by HERMAN MELVILLE WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786 by SUSANNA BLAMIRE |
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