Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PIPE-PLAYER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography First Line: Cool, and palm-shaded from the torrid heat Last Line: In perfumed darkness with the grains of wheat. Subject(s): Pipers | ||||||||
COOL, and palm-shaded from the torrid heat, The young brown tenor puts his singing by, And sets the twin pipe to his lips to try Some air of bulrush-glooms where lovers meet; O swart musician, time and fame are fleet, Brief all delight, and youth's feet fain to fly! Pipe on in peace! To-morrow must we die? What matter, if our life to-day be sweet! Soon, soon, the silver paper-reeds that sigh Along the Sacred River will repeat The echo of the dark-stoled bearers' feet, Who carry you, with wailing, where must lie Your swathed and withered body, by-and-by, In perfumed darkness with the grains of wheat. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION by WILLIAM BLAKE A PIPER by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY A CITY PIPER by MORRIS ABEL BEER SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 25 by BLISS CARMAN THE PIPER by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN THE PIPER by JAMES ELROY FLECKER THE POET HATH LOST HIS PIPE by ROBERT HERRICK PIPING by CATHARINE EMMA JACKSON FEBRUARY IN ROME by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE |
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