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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUNARIA: SONNET: 15, by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Pure pearl of silence brooding on the sky Last Line: Thou, dead world's avid corpse, cast out on space. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerienko-voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich; Voloshin, Ma Variant Title(s): Lunaria: 15 | |||
Pure pearl of silence brooding on the sky, Presider o'er conception, lamp of dreams, Altar of nightly spells, of crystal gleams, Queen of the waters where thou lov'st to lie, With what desire, where the long waves sigh, Through my dark crucifixions, toward thy beams, Toward Dian, toward fierce Hecate, there streams The vision yet unlived that shall not die. How strange thy diamond delirium shines In thy fair hollows, in thy joyless lines, And in the flashing mica of thy seas. In listless ether thou art horror's face, Thou, longing's cry, whom icy gaolers freeze, Thou, dead world's avid corpse, cast out on space. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CIMMERIAN TWILIGHT 2 by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN CIMMERIAN TWILIGHT 3 by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN STIGMATA by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN JANGLING MEMORY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD IN THE SUBWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE FOREST MAID by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT A LONDON FETE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE UNCLE ANANIAS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON IMPROMPTU LINES ON JULY FOURTH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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