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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROCELIANDE, by ALAN SEEGER Poet's Biography First Line: Broceliande! In the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade Last Line: Broceliande. . . . | |||
Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade, Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze of horizons untravelled, unscanned. Untroubled, untouched with the woes of this world are the moon-marshalled hosts that invade Broceliande. Only at dusk, when lavender clouds in the orient twilight disband, Vanishing where all the blue afternoon they have drifted in solemn parade, Sometimes a whisper comes down on the wind from the valleys of Fairyland ---- Sometimes an echo most mournful and faint like the horn of a huntsman strayed, Faint and forlorn, half drowned in the murmur of foliage fitfully fanned, Breathes in a burden of nameless regret till I startle, disturbed and affrayed: Broceliande -- Broceliande -- Broceliande. . . . | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE by ALAN SEEGER A MESSAGE TO AMERICA by ALAN SEEGER AN ODE TO ANTARES by ALAN SEEGER AN ODE TO NATURAL BEAUTY by ALAN SEEGER AT THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON BEFORE THE ELECTIONS IN AMERICA by ALAN SEEGER |
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