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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 1, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black Last Line: All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of death. | |||
He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black -- A lover come from legends long ago -- With silver spurs and silken plumes a-blow, And flashing sword caught fast and buckled back In a carven sheath of Tamarack. He came with footsteps beautifully slow, And spoke in voice meticulously low. He came and Romance followed in his track . . . I did not ask his name -- I thought him Love; I did not care to see his hidden face. All life seemed born in my intaken breath; All thought seemed flown like some forgotten dove. He bent to kiss and raised his visor's lace . . . All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERITAGE by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT LINES WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF ALEXANDER DUMAS by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT TO A DARK GIRL by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT SONNET: 2 by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT TRANSLUCENT FINGERS by MALCOLM COWLEY EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY by JAMES GALVIN NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON (A NEGRO SERENADE) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON OF THE DAY ESTIVALL by ALEXANDER HUME THE KEARSARGE (1894) by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE HARVARD DECLARES WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON |
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