Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KAZOO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE First Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas Last Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas! Under the quitch-grasses covering you, The cicada will sing for you too, Merrily, with his little cymbals. The dew will have tears in the morning; And lilies-of-the-valley make a sweet winding-sheet . . . Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas! There will be wailing droves of squalls . . . The Muse of Death will set the pitch. She will still bring to your darkened lips Those rhymes that make the pale-faced twitch . . . Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND AFTER THE RAIN by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE |
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