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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape Last Line: All beauty has become your dwelling place. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War | |||
Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape, O laughing mouth, O sweet uplifted lips. With the peering brain old ghosts take shape; You flame and wither as the white foam slips Back from the broken wave: sometimes a start, A gesture of the hands, a way you own Of bending that smooth head above your heart, -- Then these are vanished, then the dream is gone. Oh, you are too much mine and flesh of me To seal upon the brain, who in the blood Are so intense a pulse, so swift a flood Of beauty, such unceasing instancy. Dear unimagined brow, unvisioned face, All beauty has become your dwelling place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AN ETERNITY by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH |
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