Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HALLUCINATION: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it your face, is it a dream Last Line: Came back into my mouth like fire Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Hallucinations And Illusions; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Is it your face, is it a dream? Your face I dream in such a mist Of rosy gold and amethyst? Is it your eyes that flicker and gleam Like mocking stars beneath the shade Of leafy hair that seems to have curled Its tendrils to blot out the world? Dreams are the truth: let the world fade! And these warm spires of heat that rise Out of my heart into my brain, Are they not flames lighted in vain At the enchantment of your eyes? I shudder with the fear of hope, Giddy expectancy consumes My senses; but what breath perfumes The air with scents of heliotrope? I sicken with a wild desire, I drown in sweetness,till it seems As if the after-taste of dreams Came back into my mouth like fire | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB NERVES by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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