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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONNET, by LAVINIA MARSHALL
First Line: A sonnet is too crystal-clear and deep
Last Line: Then reach its goal, like life, in strong declinal.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: A sonnet is too crystal-clear and deep
Last Line: Then reach its goal, like life, in strong declinal.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
A sonnet is too crystal-clear and deep.
I have to plumb the depths of my wearied soul
To place upon the measured octave-scroll
The scanty seven-score words that proudly sweep
The reader out of peaceful waking-sleep;
As if so many full-voiced bells should toll
Infinity with deathless, fugue-like roll
While star-lit tones across the midnight leap.
For ebbing overtones, -- outgoing tide
That is sestet: my heart must yield its final
Drop of living's wine; to all confide
The gems, plumbed from a past too straightly spinal,
Too mendicant of memories wonder-eyed --
Then reach its goal, like life, in strong declinal.
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