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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT THE PLAY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: As in a theatre the amused sense Last Line: Death takes the lights, and we go home to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise | |||
AS in a theatre the amused sense Beholds the strange vicissitudes of things, Young Damon's loves, the fates of clowns and kings, And all the motley of the gay pretence -- Beholds, and on an acme of suspense Stands vibrant till the curtain falls, door swings, Lights gutter, and the weary murmurings Of o'er-watched varlets intimate us thence: Even so we gaze not on the things that are, Nor aught behold but what is adumbrate. The show is specious, and we laugh and weep At what is only meant spectacular; And when the curtain falls, we may not wait: Death takes the lights, and we go home to sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX A SERMON AT CLEVEDON; GOOD FRIDAY by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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