Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER AN INTERVAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an interval, reading, here in the midnight Last Line: And the duo of saturn and mars! | ||||||||
(NOVEMBER 22, 1'75, MIDNIGHT -- SATURN AND MARS IN CONJUNCTION) AFTER an interval, reading, here in the midnight, With the great stars looking on -- all the stars of Orion looking, And the silent Pleiades -- and the duo looking of Saturn and ruddy Mars; Pondering, reading my own songs, after a long interval, (sorrow and death familiar now) Ere closing the book, what pride! what joy! to find them Standing so well the test of death and night, And the duo of Saturn and Mars! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE by WALT WHITMAN A CLEAR MIDNIGHT by WALT WHITMAN A FARM PICTURE by WALT WHITMAN A PRAIRIE SUNSET by WALT WHITMAN A VOICE PROPHETIC by WALT WHITMAN AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH by WALT WHITMAN AN EVENING LULL by WALT WHITMAN |
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