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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JUNGLE, by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG First Line: An alchemy of sunset weaving amethystine gold Last Line: Famine before fulfillment lighting space. | |||
An alchemy of sunset weaving amethystine gold On shadowed laces, dripping splendour from an unknown weight Of gems inset and girt across the armoured front of night; Till dawn from out beyond the feathered distances lets fold On fold of molten rose unfurl like wings upon a state Of worship -- being Beauty, veiled to guard herself from sight. And all the glamorous perfumes on the air, And all the clamorous voices on the dark, Faint into keener sweetness; from the lair Dry lips lift, holden parted, as with stark Thirst in thrall to Beauty's breathing grace, Famine before fulfillment lighting space. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIMALAYA by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG MISTS by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG WESTERN MORNING by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. CHARLES BLISS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS CANCIONEROS: 2 by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO A SUN-DAY HYMN [OR LAMENT] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747 by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS by JOHN MILTON A POEM FOR THE SEFIROT AS WHEEL OF LIGHT by NAFTALI BACHARACH |
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