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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CIRCUS AT NIGHT, by MADELEINE AARON First Line: The weathered tent on this star-gilded night Last Line: And singing crickets claim the field again. Subject(s): Circus; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | |||
The weathered tent on this star-gilded night Is a great lantern. Its internal glow Falls on the watchers of the splendent show, On grinning clowns, and beasts in stupid plight. The cheers that tell the multitude's delight Are lost in martial melodies that grow More loud as wonder mounts, while to and fro Men leap in air across a dizzy height. Three hours have passed. There is no shining tent. No shouts or music break the town's deep rest. There are no cowering beasts, no daring men. The dew has fallen. In the firmament Antares has pushed farther toward the west, And singing crickets claim the field again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL |
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