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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon grew pale. -- the weeping seraphim
Last Line: A fall of stars which perfumed all the night.
Subject(s): Kisses; Vision
First Line: The moon grew pale. -- the weeping seraphim
Last Line: A fall of stars which perfumed all the night.
Subject(s): Kisses; Vision
THE moon grew pale.—The weeping seraphim
That dream and dream for ever in a mist
Of blossom infinite and blue and dim
Did touch their viol strings.
This was the holy day when first we kissed.
Mine is the mood of memory that brings
Sweet pain and makes me drunken with my part
Of honeyed sorrow—yielding without haste,
Without regret, or bitter aftertaste,
The dream upgathered to the dreaming Heart,
Even thus I wandered dropping my eyes down,
When suddenly, with sunlight in your hair,
Pale evening sunlight, you stood laughing there.
You were the fairy in a radiant gown
Who used to linger once beside the bed
Of a tired child, with hands not shut so tight
But that there showered round the sleepy head
A fall of stars which perfumed all the night.
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