Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APPARITION, by STEPHANE MALLARME



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First Line: The moon grew sad. The tear-stained seraphim
Last Line: Clusters of fragrant stars like gleaming snow.


THE moon grew sad. The tear-stained seraphim
Adream drew with their bows amid the dim
Mist of calm flowers from failing viol-strings
White grief that to the azure petal clings. --
You had first kissed me on that blessed day.
My thought in its strange, self-tormenting way
Felt all the subtle melancholy sting
Which, even without regret, the gathering
Of any dream leaves in the dreamer's heart.
Mine eyes fixed on the stones I walked apart
When, with your sunny hair, in that old street
And in the gloom you came with laughter sweet,
Like to that fairy with great aureole
Who once, in dreams of childhood, touched my soul,
And who from half-closed hands would ever throw
Clusters of fragrant stars like gleaming snow.





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