To the imagined lives Evoked by music, Creatures of horns, flutes, drums, Violins, basoons, cymbals -- Nude porters that glistened in Burma Defiling from sight; Island philosophers spent By long thought beside fountains; Big-bellied ogres curled up in the sunlight, Stuttering dreams ... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INCORRIGIBLE DIRIGIBLE by HAYDEN CARRUTH LA NOCHE TRISTE by ROBERT FROST BRIGHTNESS AS A POIGNANT LIGHT by DAVID IGNATOW TO BAYARD TAYLOR by SIDNEY LANIER ACROSS THE RED SKY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DOMEDAY BOOK: JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM MARION REEDY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |