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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FULL MOON, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My bands of silk and miniver
Last Line: The clean bones crying in the flesh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon
First Line: My bands of silk and miniver
Last Line: The clean bones crying in the flesh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon
My bands of silk and miniver
Momently grew heavier;
The black gauze was beggarly thin;
The ermine muffled mouth and chin;
I could not suck the moonlight in.
Harlequin in lozenges
Of love and hate, I walked in these
Striped and ragged rigmaroles;
Along the pavement my footsoles
Trod warily on living coals.
Shouldering the thoughts I loathed,
In their corrupt disguised clothed,
Mortality I could not tear
From my ribs, to leave them bare
Ivory in silver air.
There I walked, and there I raged;
The spiritual savage caged
Within my skeleton, raged afresh
To feel, behind a carnal mesh,
The clean bones crying in the flesh.
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