Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH - DIVINIATION, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poet's Biography First Line: Death is like moonlight in a lofty wood Last Line: Where joys on joys forevermore succeed. | ||||||||
Death is like moonlight in a lofty wood, That pours pale magic through the shadowy leaves; 'T is like the web that some old perfume weaves In a dim, lonely room where memories brood; Like snow-chilled wine it steals into the blood, Spurring the pulse its coolness half reprieves; Tenderly quickening impulses it gives, As April winds unsheathe an opening bud. Death is like all sweet, sense-enfolding things, That lift us in a dream-delicious trance Beyond the flickering good and ill of chance; But most is Death like Music's buoyant wings, That bear the soul, a willing Ganymede, Where joys on joys forevermore succeed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DREAM OF ENGLAND by CHARLES WHARTON STORK A WOMAN SPEAKS by CHARLES WHARTON STORK AUTUMNAL ECSTASY by CHARLES WHARTON STORK BEAUTY'S BURDEN by CHARLES WHARTON STORK EDVARD GRIEG by CHARLES WHARTON STORK FLYING FISH: AN ODE by CHARLES WHARTON STORK FUNGI by CHARLES WHARTON STORK IN EARTHEN VESSELS by CHARLES WHARTON STORK LEAF-MOULD by CHARLES WHARTON STORK LLEWELLYN, PRINCE OF CAMBRIA; A WELSH BALLAD by CHARLES WHARTON STORK NO LUCK by CHARLES WHARTON STORK SESQUICENTENNIAL ODE; FOR JULY 24, 1926 by CHARLES WHARTON STORK |
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