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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: OCTOBER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The passionate summer's dead! The sky's a-glow
Last Line: To swell the purple pomp that floateth by.
Subject(s): October
First Line: The passionate summer's dead! The sky's a-glow
Last Line: To swell the purple pomp that floateth by.
Subject(s): October
THE passionate summer's dead! the sky's aglow
With roseate flushes of matured desire,
The winds at eve are musical and low,
As sweeping chords of a lamenting lyre,
Far up among the pillared clouds of fire,
Whose pomp of strange procession upward rolls,
With gorgeous blazonry of pictured scrolls,
To celebrate the summer's past renown;
Ah, me! how regally the heavens look down,
O'ershadowing beautiful autumnal woods
And harvest fields with hoarded increase brown,
And deep-toned majesty of golden floods,
That raise their solemn dirges to the sky,
To swell the purple pomp that floateth by.
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