Classic and Contemporary Poetry
L'ANGE PLEUREUR (AMIENS CATHEDRAL), by ALICE COLE KLEENE First Line: Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep Last Line: Whose garment changes, but he does not change. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals | ||||||||
Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep Through centuries, an hour-glass by your side, One elbow on a great skull empty-eyed? I see the sand slip and the season sweep, A day for labor and a night for sleep, The grave so narrow and the world so wide, -- The drift that marks the footfall of the tide, I see it too, and yet I do not weep. No, you are homesick for the cherubim, To follow light beyond earth's blue-tipped range! Strange are we filing past you, ever strange Lauding your grace beside a death's head grim, While your small wings and sad mouth yearn to him Whose garment changes, but He does not change. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE |
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