Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FARIS, SELECTION, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poet's Biography First Line: No palms are seen with their green hair Last Line: Look down upon the plain. | ||||||||
No palms are seen with their green hair, Nor white-crested desert tents are there, But his brow is shaded by the sky, That flingeth aloft its canopy; The mighty rocks lie now at rest, And the stars move slowly on heaven's breast. My Arab steed is black -- Black as the tempest cloud that flies Across the dark and muttering skies, And leaves a gloomy track. His hoofs are shod with lightning's glare; I give the winds his flowing mane And spur his smoking o'er the plain; And none from earth or heaven dare My path to chase in vain And as my barb-like lightning flies, I gaze upon the moonlit skies And see the stars with golden eyes Look down upon the plain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW YEAR'S WISHES by ADAM MICKIEWICZ THE ANCESTORS, SELECTION by ADAM MICKIEWICZ A MENDOCINO MEMORY by EDWIN MARKHAM THE GREY ROCK by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH |
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