Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VENUS OF MILO, by ALFRED NOYES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward she leans, as when the rose unblown Last Line: Out of the slipping dream-stuff half withdrawn. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo | ||||||||
I BACKWARD she leans, as when the rose unblown Slides white from its warm sheath some morn in May! Under the sloping waist, aslant, her zone Clings as it slips in tender disarray; One knee, out-thrust a little, keeps it so Lingering ere it fall; her lovely face Gazes as o'er her own Eternity! Those armless radiant shoulders, long ago Perchance held arms out wide with yearning grace For Adon by the blue Sicilian sea. II No; thou eternal fount of these poor gleams, Bright axle-star of the wheeling temporal skies, Daughter of blood and foam and deathless dreams, Mother of flying Love that never dies, To thee, the topmost and consummate flower, The last harmonic height, our dull desires And our tired souls in dreary discord climb; The flesh forgets its pale and wandering fires; We gaze through heaven as from an ivory tower Shining upon the last dark shores of Time. III White culmination of the dreams of earth, Thy splendour beacons to a loftier goal, Where, slipping earthward from the great new birth, The shadowy senses leave the essential soul! Oh, naked loveliness, not yet revealed, A moment hence that falling robe will show No prophecy like this, this great new dawn, The bare bright breasts, each like a soft white shield, And the firm body like a slope of snow Out of the slipping dream-stuff half withdrawn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: THE VENUS OF MILO by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LADY FROM MELOS by WEET DICKINSON THE VENUS DE MILO by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE THE VENUS OF MILO by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE TO THE VENUS OF MELOS by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD THE VENUS OF MILO by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN SONNET, SELS. by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO TWO WORLDS: 1. THE VENUS OF MILO by RICHARD WATSON GILDER VENUS DE MILO by GOTTFRIED KELLER MOUNTAIN LAUREL by ALFRED NOYES |
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