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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXALTATION, by KURT HEYNICKE Poet's Biography First Line: Lift your heart in flooding silence Last Line: We wait as a deer waits to meet the moon at night. | |||
Lift your heart in flooding silence; hours nod in shadow, evening-eyed. Lift your faces toward the lighted sky. Stars, not hearts, are throbbing in our breasts. Through the gates of evening we are guided home on bright feet under a golden dome, the world wanders, drunk with ecstasy. We are treading on the path of stars, from the god-ploughed sod a tree springs toward the light: through the leafage gleam a thousand fruits. We dream as coral dream in a slow sea. We wait as a deer waits to meet the moon at night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OBSERVATION POST by KURT HEYNICKE OUR CAMP; IN THE AUTUMN WOODS by ROBERT FROST CURTAIN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON BEFORE DAWN; SONNET by AMY LOWELL AUTUMN MALADE by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE |
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