Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOWN-FLOWERS; TO MAURICE MAETERLINCK, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poet's Biography First Line: Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow Last Line: To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Dramatists; Flowers; Life; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Dramatists | ||||||||
Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow, In the land of shadows the dawn-flowers grow; The night-worn moon yields her weary glow To the morn-rays that over the dream-waste flow. Oh, to know what the dawn-wind murmurs In chapels of pines to the ashen moons; What the forest-well whispers to dale and dell With her singular, reticent runes; To know the plaint of each falling leaf As it whirls across the autumnal plain; To know the dreams of the desolate shore As sails, like ghosts, pass o'er the dawnlit main! To know, oh, to know Why all life's strains have the same refrain As of rain, Beating sadly against the window pain. We do not know and we can not know, And all that is left for us here below (Since "songs and singers are out of date" And the muses have met with a similar fate) Is to flee to the land of shadows and dreams, Where the dawn-flowers grown And the dawn-winds blow, As morn-rays over life's dream-waste flow To drown the moon in their ambient glow. Oh, gray dawn-poet of Flanders, Though in this life we ne'er may meet, I'll linger where thy dream-maids wander To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL TANKA: 1 by SADAKICHI HARTMANN |
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