Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poet's Biography First Line: Even as to a music, stately and sad Last Line: She needs must cover up her face and weep. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Even as to a music, stately and sad, The young girls' feet begin to move in a dance, And curiously for joy shift and advance; So to a mournful waltz, sombre and sweet; All laughing things move with delighted feet, So all things that draw light and laughing breath Move to the mournful waltz of life and death. Comedy is a girl dancing in time To the tragic pipes, sorrowful and sublime; And ever she laughs back, and as she skips Mimics the mournful music with her lips; Then for sheer anger at her own pretense Sobs violently at her own vehemence, And mocks her tears. But when the pipings sleep She needs must cover up her face and weep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS THE BLACK PANTHER by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK |
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