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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RENAISSANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Still we hear it
Last Line: Of those that worship the sun!
Subject(s): Immortality; Moon; Night; Prayer; Sun; Bedtime
First Line: Still we hear it
Last Line: Of those that worship the sun!
Subject(s): Immortality; Moon; Night; Prayer; Sun; Bedtime
Still we hear it --
Clear, immortal, undying, --
The old sweet chant
Of those that worship the sun!
Pallid, perverse, diseased,
The mystical rabble
Gibber and twitter and weep.
With a waving of leprous arms,
With a beating of epicene breasts,
They mutter their prayers to the night,
And the moon, their odalisque.
But still we hear it --
Clear, immortal, undying, --
The old sweet chant
Of those that worship the sun!
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