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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DREAM, by ELLEN M. ACTON First Line: Jester, spin your silver ball Last Line: "in the silver ball!" Subject(s): Jesters | |||
"Jester, spin your silver ball, Youth and joy are at your call!" "The great grow weary forgetting pain, Jester, spin your ball again!" "Jester, music!" "Against the wall How light the silver pieces fall!" "Jester, let the pieces fall— Mend not the sphere of your shivered ball, For another as fair the king shall call!" "Masters, masters, the shivered shell Was the joy of my life— How light it fell! "Masters, masters, I leave the hall— My heart was hid In the silver ball!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST by ANDREW LANG ON THE DEATH OF THULENE THE KYNGE'S JESTER by JEAN PASSERAT THE JESTER CONDEMNED TO DEATH by HORACE SMITH YORICK'S SKULL by JOHN BANISTER TABB THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO by JAMES GALVIN WE FACE THE FUTURE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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