Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: JAPONICAS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the sullen slope of shadowy skies Last Line: Of roseate lips, dark locks, and swan-white throat! Subject(s): Japonicas | ||||||||
BENEATH the sullen slope of shadowy skies, Midmost this flowerless, wind-bewildered space (Once a fair garden, now a desert-place) Ah! what voluptuous hues are these that rise In sudden lustre, on my startled eyes? They glow like roses on an orient face, Glimpsed in swift flashes of enchanting grace, 'Twixt the shy harem's gold-wrought tapestries! Ye bright Japonicas! your glorious gleam Tints with strange light the enamored waves of air, And wafts of such coy fragrance round you float Fancy transcends these boundaries blanched and bare, For beauty lures her in a ravishing dream Of roseate lips, dark locks, and swan-white throat! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ASPECTS OF THE PINES by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE BEYOND THE POTOMAC by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE CHARLESTON by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE IN HARBOR by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE MACDONALD'S RAID - A.D. 1780 by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE PATIENCE by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE PRE-EXISTENCE by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE ROSE AND THORN by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE VICKSBURG by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE A BACHELOR-BOOKWORM'S COMPLAINT OF LAST PRESENTIAL ELECTION by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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