Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KAZOO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE


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First Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas
Last Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas!
Under the quitch-grasses covering you,
The cicada will sing for you too,
Merrily, with his little cymbals.

The dew will have tears in the morning;
And lilies-of-the-valley make a sweet winding-sheet . . .
Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas!

There will be wailing droves of squalls . . .

The Muse of Death will set the pitch.
She will still bring to your darkened lips
Those rhymes that make the pale-faced twitch . . .
Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas!





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