Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOON TABLEAUX: 4, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poet's Biography First Line: A boomerang flies through the evening clouds Last Line: Golden-yellow boomerang! Subject(s): Boomerangs | ||||||||
A boomerang flies through the evening clouds, A golden-yellow boomerang. And I think to myself: Hullo! An Australian blackfellow angel Must have hurled that Out of the Happy Hunting-Grounds Perhaps inadvertently? The poor blackfellow! In the end a cherub prevents him From climbing the heavenly fence So that he may get his weapon Back again ... Oh, darling cherub, I beg you, for the blackfellow's sake, Consider: It is such a beautiful, Precious, Golden-yellow boomerang! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIRST SNOW by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN MOONRISE by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN NECESSITY (- AND NECESSITY, TOO, IS BUT A GARMENT) by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN NIGHT SONG OF THE FISH by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN THE BIRD OF SADNESS by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN THE WOODEN FENCE by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN by THOMAS CAMPION EPIGRAM: A BURNT SHIP by JOHN DONNE WERE I BUT HIS OWN WIFE by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING |
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