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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VARIATIONS: 16, by CONRAD AIKEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against an orange twilight sky Last Line: The streetlamp gleams like an evil eye. Subject(s): Nature | |||
Against an orange twilight sky The street lamp gleams like clearer fire, The cold wind spills the huddling leaves, And cold bells, in the sombre spire, Shake the wind with a savage sound . . . The streetlamp gleams like a golden eye. This dust will be possessed of tongues, These leaves will find a million voices, These stones will murmur and seize our feet, These boughs of trees will writhe and beat . . . Against an orange twilight sky The streetlamp burns like a golden eye. The earth's edge, growing black, swings up With sinister and enormous arc; The yellow star that came to swim Silently in the golden sky Is caught and crushed by that black rim . . . The streetlamp gleams like an evil eye. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN |
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