Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PAGEANT, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER


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First Line: The night is domed with diamonds. Moire
Last Line: That healed the hearts of job and heloise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Festivals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fairs; Pageants


The night is domed with diamonds. Moire
Of rippling star-wind rims the pillared sky.
The blazing pendula of space swing high,
To sphinx-timed ticks, whose prototypes we are.
Flushed Venus tilts a purple samovar
In emerald halls, to Jupiter lured nigh --
The golden fleets of proud Phoenicia ply
The charted seas of heaven, slow and far.

Like puppets pulled by strings, tongue-tied, we stand
And mark the vast machinery of law
Moving the harnessed worlds of lands and seas.
Here are the music-mines of Samarkand --
The holy wells of wonder and of awe
That healed the hearts of Job and Heloise.





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