Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NORTH LAKE, by ALEXANDER HYND LINDSAY First Line: O you star-strewn stream of placid blue Last Line: Is beauty shimmering in an emerald frame. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals | ||||||||
O you star-strewn stream of placid blue Have brought me to the terminal of thought. Now let me forget all I ever knew; All that cold syllogisms ever taught. Burn on, rose eve. Wing down, soft velvet night, Where tree-spired cathedrals pillar these deeps Shaped by the artistry of dying light. Within thy silver ripples Beauty keeps Her secret. Here in this white hour I know Why thought blends more with feeling than with eye That feeds on sensuous form. 'Tis not thy flow Blue swell, nor lapping mouth melting with sky That lure -- these form thy flesh, Lake Nymph, thy name Is Beauty shimmering in an emerald frame. | 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 AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE LAKE BOATS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE YOUNG LADY MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW by JOHN DRYDEN |
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