|
|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOONRISE, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest tree-tops Last Line: Gazes after it. | |||
In the forest tree-tops, whose ghosts, black and rigid, fill the fawn-colored twilight sky, hangs a great, gleaming soap-bubble. Slowly it looses itself from the branches and floats up into the ether. Below in the thicket lies Pan, in his mouth a long reed, whereon the crusted foam of the neighboring pool still glistens. He blew bubbles, the merry god: but nearly all burst maliciously. Only one behaved valiantly and flew up above the tree-tops. There it rides shimmering, borne by the wind, across the land. Ever higher mounts the fragile ball. But Pan with thumping heart-beats— with caught breath— gazes after it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIRST SNOW by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN MOON TABLEAUX: 4 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 TO MAY HOWARD JACKSON - SCULPTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON STRANGE MEETINGS: 10 by HAROLD MONRO |
| |