Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SIDE-WINDER, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS


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First Line: A lazy loop of lozenged gray
Last Line: And sleep for him that wakens me.
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


A lazy loop of lozenged gray,
I stretch amid the sand and sun,
Or wind a sullen yard away
The greasewood's creeping shade to shun.

The hot earth nestles to my chin;
My lidless orbs outstare the sky
All unabashed. And dry and thin
My unawakened rattles lie.

Content I dream. Content is deep
For whom three mortal joys there be—
My own white sun; my ardent sleep;
And sleep for him that wakens me.





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