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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD SONG, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN First Line: In the blossom-land japan Last Line: "and one who sings her child to sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Death; Fights; Dead, The | |||
IN the blossom-land Japan Somewhere thus an old song ran. Said a warrior to a smith "Hammer me a sword forthwith. Make the blade Light as wind on water laid. Make it long As the wheat at harvest song. Supple, swift As a snake, without rift, Full of lightnings, thousand-eyed! Smooth as silken cloth and thin As the web that spiders spin. And merciless as pain, and cold." "On the hilt what shall be told?" "On the sword's hilt, my good man," Said the warrior of Japan, "Trace for me A running lake, a flock of sheep And one who sings her child to sleep." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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