Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEHIND THE SCENES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE


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BEHIND THE SCENES, by                    
First Line: Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell
Last Line: Behind the scenes!
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters


Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell
Beneath the tinsel and the spell,
The mimic glory of the stage,
That thrills the crowd! Othello's rage,
Insane Lear's mouthings, or the fell
Complaints of Hamlet, scarce excel
The tragedies no words may tell;
The griefs no encores may assuage,
Behind the scenes!

There "properties" lie heaped, pell-mell,
Whose grewsome shapes and shadows quell
The heart of youth, the hopes of age,
With terrors that no one may gauge,
Save he who threads the gloomy cell
Behind the scenes!





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