Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUNARIA: SONNET: 15, by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Pure pearl of silence brooding on the sky Last Line: Thou, dead world's avid corpse, cast out on space. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerienko-voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich; Voloshin, Ma Variant Title(s): Lunaria: 15 | ||||||||
Pure pearl of silence brooding on the sky, Presider o'er conception, lamp of dreams, Altar of nightly spells, of crystal gleams, Queen of the waters where thou lov'st to lie, With what desire, where the long waves sigh, Through my dark crucifixions, toward thy beams, Toward Dian, toward fierce Hecate, there streams The vision yet unlived that shall not die. How strange thy diamond delirium shines In thy fair hollows, in thy joyless lines, And in the flashing mica of thy seas. In listless ether thou art horror's face, Thou, longing's cry, whom icy gaolers freeze, Thou, dead world's avid corpse, cast out on space. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CIMMERIAN TWILIGHT 2 by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN CIMMERIAN TWILIGHT 3 by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN STIGMATA by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN ERASMUS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE BOROUGH: LETTER 22. POOR OF THE BOROUGH. PETER GRIMES by GEORGE CRABBE SEA GODS: 2 by HILDA DOOLITTLE ONLY A YEAR' by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE THE SPAN OF LIFE by LEVI BISHOP OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 4 by THOMAS CAMPION TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. STANDING BEYOND TIME by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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