Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CRESSIDA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poet's Biography First Line: Fire catches agamemnon's crimson sail Last Line: Flowed the delicious future of his dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares | ||||||||
FIRE catches Agamemnon's crimson sail And hostile arms invade the burning fleet Where, in the last disorder of retreat, The shattered Grecian host without avail Is knotted desperately; women bewail Already their near capture, to complete Whose terror one of them runs forth to meet Love's freedom, love's imprisonment, to hail With outflung arms and joyous eyes agleam Him from whose side she parted so long since Nigh three dayswho now o'er great captains dead, Achilles' self, Ajax, or Diomed, Victorious moves. ... So round the sleeping prince Flowed the delicious future of his dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG by CHARLES WILLIAMS TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 8. AFTER RONSARD by CHARLES WILLIAMS |
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