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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORIENTALE: 2, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Lean candles hunger in
Last Line: With lust
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
First Line: Lean candles hunger in
Last Line: With lust
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
lean candles hunger in
the silence a
brown god
smiles between greentwittering
smokes from broken eyes
a sound
of strangling beasts and bestial
grovelling
hands rasps the purple
dark-
ness
a
worshipper
prostrate within twitching shadow
lolls
sobbing
with lust
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