Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTH-TERROR, by BENJAMIN DE CASSERES First Line: I have killed the moth flying around my night-light Last Line: Night-moth, change-moth, time-moth, eaters of dreams and of me! Subject(s): Moths | ||||||||
I have killed the moth flying around my night-light; wingless and dead it lies upon the floor. (O who will kill the great Time-Moth that eats holes in my soul and that burrows in and through my secretest veils!) My will against its will, and no more will it fly at my night-light or be hidden behind the curtains that swing in the winds. (But O who will shatter the Change-Moth that leaves me in rags -- tattered old tapestries that swing in the winds that blow out of Chaos!) Night-Moth, Change-Moth, Time-Moth, eaters of dreams and of me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOBOCRASPIS GRISEIFUSA by TED KOOSER THE WOOLEN BUG by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ALL FOOLS' CALENDER by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582 by NORMAN DUBIE THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952 by NORMAN DUBIE THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING by NORMAN DUBIE TO A MOTH SEEN IN WINTER by ROBERT FROST BIRCH STREAM by ANNA BOYNTON AVERILL |
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