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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SYMBOLS (2), by VANCE THOMPSON Poet's Biography
First Line: My palace is of smoke and rain
Last Line: Men mad with dreams, shout to the night.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Stars; Dead, The; Bedtime
First Line: My palace is of smoke and rain
Last Line: Men mad with dreams, shout to the night.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Stars; Dead, The; Bedtime
My palace is of smoke and rain
And from the window I look forth
And see a blurred, tumultuous train
Glide through a tunnel to the north,
Beaconed by lantern-lights of blood.
My palace is of storm and flood,
And through the window panes I see
The white stars miming oracles
To the dead sand and sleeping sea --
Stars sigh and cry aloud like bells.
My palace is of black basalt.
The stars which mimed in the blue vault
Have passed with dark averted cowls.
I see the city's fitful light
(Lights winking like the eyes of owls).
Men mad with dreams, shout to the night.
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