Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EVENING SKY IN MARCH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-bosom'd and rose-limb'd Last Line: As venus light-foot mid the twined branches goes. Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Sunset; Twilight | ||||||||
ROSE-BOSOM'D and rose-limb'd, With eyes of dazzling bright, Shakes Venus mid the twined boughs of the night; Rose-limb'd, soft-stepping From low bough to bough, Shaking the wide-hung starry fruitagedimmed Its bloom of snow By that sole planetary glow. Venus, avers the astronomer Not thus idly dancing goes Flushing the eternal orchard with wild rose. She through ether burns Outpacing planetary earth, And ere two years triumphantly returns And again wave-like swelling flows: And again her flashing apparition comes and goes. This we have not seen, No heavenly courses set, No flight unpausing through a void serene: But when eve clears, Arises Venus as she first uprose Stepping the shaken boughs among, And in her bosom glows The warm light hidden in sunny snows. She shakes the clustered stars Lightly, as she goes Amid the unseen branches of the night, Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright. She leaps: they shake and pale; she glows And who but knows How the rejoiced heart aches When Venus all his starry vision shakes: When through his mind Tossing with random airs of an unearthly wind, Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd, The mistress of his starry vision arises, And the boughs glittering sway And the stars pale away, And the enlarging heaven glows As Venus light-foot mid the twined branches goes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN TWILIGHT COMES by HAYDEN CARRUTH IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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