Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHITE NIGHT, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN First Line: I went down the painted desert trail last Last Line: I returned to normalcy, to rest, and to sleep. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Monuments | ||||||||
I went down the Painted Desert Trail last night, An adventure filled with a rare delight, I walked on the bottom of a silvery sea, An ocean of moonlight engulfing me! Softly I walked in miniature vales, Where the heart beats slow, the soul wonders and quails; I climbed up the side of a giant mound, Trying my strength in the world I had found. I bathed in the moonlight's hypnotic tide; With hair flying free and arms flung wide, As sad and as mad as a hatter was I, Down the length of the "elephant back" ran I; I threw myself down, laboring fiercely for breath, To sustain life in this place of weird beauty and death! I retraced my steps slowly on the upward way, Surfeited, vanquished. Gone, the spirit of play -- Worn with my wanderings in the silvery deep, I returned to normalcy, to rest, and to sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRO PATRIA by CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON CHURCH MONUMENTS by GEORGE HERBERT LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN by PATRICK KAVANAGH FOR THE UNION DEAD by ROBERT LOWELL ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS by W. T. ADAMS INSCRIPTIONS: 4 by MARK AKENSIDE EUMARES by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS THE MAUSOLEUM by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN BUT WHEN I SAW GRAND CANYON by BYRDIE L. MARTIN |
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