Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
WHEN a man's prime passion, for years on years, Is giving birth to bright waltz airs, That are quick with life and love that cheers, And fresh as the bloom that the springtime wears; 'Tis a fancy sad and strange withal, To dream he must lie in the grave some day And hear no longer the soft clear call Of music, once that he heard alway. Would he seize all melodies Nature knows, To fit the passion that haunts him still, Till out of them all a wild strain grows Graced and fashioned to suit his will, And up from the Earth our pulses stir? -- Fancy him there in the chilly vaults, Singing still in his sepulcher, Subtly shaping his witching waltz! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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