Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A WELSH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poet's Biography First Line: Why that neck of marble whiteness Last Line: Ere that thou art old! Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Evil | ||||||||
WHY that neck of marble whiteness, Why that hair of sunny brightness, Form of perfect mould; Why those fringed eyelids screening, Lights of love and liquid meaning, While the heart is cold? Shame on her whose pride or malice With a lover's anguish dallies! Scorn our scatter'd reason rallies: Thou shalt mourn thy tyrant sallies, Ere that thou art old -- young Alice, Ere that thou art old! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAIN AND AGAIN I HAVE SEEN LIFE'S EVIL by EUGENIO MONTALE PACKING THE HEART by MARY JO BANG ON LADY POLTAGRUE: A PUBLIC PERIL by HILAIRE BELLOC TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA by JOHN CIARDI THE SAINTS OF NEGATIVITY; FOR ERMA POUNDS by NORMAN DUBIE AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ELECTION DAY, 1984 by CAROLYN KIZER EVENING HYMN by REGINALD HEBER |
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