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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHASTENED CLOWN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Eyes, lakes withal my simple drunkenness to be reborn
Last Line: This grease paint drowned in the glacial water of perfidy.
First Line: Eyes, lakes withal my simple drunkenness to be reborn
Last Line: This grease paint drowned in the glacial water of perfidy.
Eyes, lakes withal my simple drunkenness to be reborn
Other than actor evoking with gesture
As though of a quill the shameful soot of the lamps,
I bored a window through the curtain wall.
Swimming to my hand and foot sheer traitor,
In numberless bounds, reneging the bad
Hamlet! it's as though in the waves I improvised
A thousand tombs in which to vanish virginal.
Jubilant gold of cymbal irked to fists,
The sun at a fell blow smites the nudity
Breathed forth pure from my nacreous freshness,
Foul night of the skin though you passed upon me,
As if not knowing, ingrate! that it was my sole anointment,
This grease paint drowned in the glacial water of perfidy.
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