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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOT FOR THAT CITY, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for that city of the level sun Last Line: Too sound for waking and for dreams too deep Subject(s): Life Change Events | |||
Not for that city of the level sun, Its golden streets and glittering gates ablaze- The shadeless, sleepless city of white days, White nights, or nights and days that are as one- We weary, when all is said , all thought, all done. We strain our eyes beyond this dusk to see What, from the threshold of eternity We shall step into. No, I think we shun The splendour of that everlasting glare, The clamour of that never-ending song. And if for anything we greatly long, It is for some remote and quiet stair Which winds to silence and a space for sleep Too sound for waking and for dreams too deep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CITY IN WHICH I WAS BORN WAS DESTROYED BY CANNON by YEHUDA AMICHAI AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN by MARGARET ATWOOD THE WORLD'S A STAGE by HILAIRE BELLOC LEARNING TO TALK by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE NEWBORN by CECIL DAY LEWIS SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN' by NORMAN DUBIE AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI by NORMAN DUBIE |
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