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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CRIMSON, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold Last Line: Shadows and smoke and watch my thoughts come and go.) Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes | |||
CRIMSON is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold, Gray is the ash that stiffens and covers all silent the fire. (A great man I know is dead and while he lies in his coffin a gone flame I sit here in cumbering shadows and smoke and watch my thoughts come and go.) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON CHANEL NO. 5 by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY by JAMES GALVIN DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |
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