Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPLACABLE BEAUTY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide waste the web of twilight trembling Last Line: Hangs, like a scimitar. Subject(s): Beauty | ||||||||
On the wide waste the web of twilight trembling, Hangs low with stars and night, The dying day, in the worn west dissembling, Crowns his defeat with light. Here by the sands and dunes my soul sinks crying, By beauty stabbed to death -- "O in the dusk of the world let me too, dying, Mingle with these my breath!" There is no answer. In the cold heavens shining, Star trembles unto star; The virgin moon in the clear west declining Hangs, like a scimitar. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BEAUTY OF THINGS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS REARMAMENT by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BLACK PANTHER by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK |
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