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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poet's Biography First Line: The unleashed air Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. | |||
THE unleashed air, A wild cold animal, Hunts on the hills. Yet the hollow amid the rocks Is brimful of quiet, So quiet Faery may be heard: So still There is not a flicker In the candle of dream . The warm East Is at my feet. In burning blue Lagoon beyond lagoon Faints shimmering, All lotus besprinkled - Rose lotuses! A woman leans, A dream out of Allah. The water quivers In ivory ringlets Beneath her fingers As she plucks the blossom she twines In the dark shining of her hair. She stands; Stillness in ivory! But ere I see her eyes, Ere I make them mine, The wild cold animal Leaps into the hollow. The candle flickers and is blown; The paths all are darkened. A dream has lost its way to life. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROLIC by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL IMMORTALITY by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL RECONCILIATION by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL SACRIFICE by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL THE GIFT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A CALL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A FAREWELL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A HOLY HILL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A LAST COUNSEL by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A LEADER by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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