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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WATER WHEEL, by ABU ABD ALLAH First Line: Back arching: so Last Line: Importuning of lack. | |||
Back arching: so See her bending low To suckle with her waters Earth's lovely daughters. Her upper half is like A twanging bow, to strike With a liquid tide Of arrows every side. Or she is a sphere Celestial, her sheer Waters meteors hurled Upon a barren world. The slim boughs entrance Her with their swaying dance; Behold her twirling, Her sharp swords whirling. Not of thirst she groans I think, nor moans Parched, her shoulder-blade Drenched in that cascade. Suppose her then a maid Singing, and the glade A drinker, all a throng Of wine and song: Her sprinkled dew Over the dark hue White gifts to the black Importuning of lack. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINE AND CITRON by ABU ABD ALLAH FRANCIS II, KING OF NAPLES; SONNET by AMY LOWELL SOHRAB AND RUSTUM by MATTHEW ARNOLD FROM THE DARK TOWER by COUNTEE CULLEN WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON VERLAINE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 32 by PHILIP SIDNEY LITTLE GOLDENHAIR by F. BURGE SMITH LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES) by ANNE SPENCER SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 1 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY STANZAS IN THE MEMORY OF EDWARD QUILLINAN, ESQ. by MATTHEW ARNOLD |
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