Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE MAIDS, by ACHILLE MILLIEN First Line: It is the hour when day in beauty dies Last Line: "-- ""'tis anguish,"" sighs the third, ""and hence I die!" Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Dead, The | ||||||||
IT is the hour when day in beauty dies -- Three virgin forms are limned upon the sun; One greets with song the twilight's halcyon; Adream, the second smiles; the other sighs. One says: "O Sisters, what may Love imply?" The second smiles: "I know not. Once I read: 'Without Love's ardent flame the soul is dead.'" -- "'Tis anguish," sighs the third, "and hence I die!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND THE THREE SISTERS by ACHILLE MILLIEN MISGIVINGS (1860) by HERMAN MELVILLE HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE by EZRA POUND |
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