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AS WE READ BURNS by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHO IS SPEAKING? WHO HAS
Last Line: YOU OUTHOLD SO LOVINGLY!
Subject(s): ART & ARTISTS; DREAMS; NIGHTMARES;

WHO is speaking? Who has spoken?
Whose voice ceasing thus has broken
The sweet pathos of our dreams?
Sweetest bard of sweetest themes,
Pouring in each poet-heart
Some rare essence of your art
Till it seems your singing lip
Kisses every pencil tip!
Far across the unknown lands --
Reach of heavenly isle and sea --
How we long to touch the hands
You outhold so lovingly!



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