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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

VARIATIONS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU ARE AS BEAUTIFUL AS WHITE CLOUDS
Last Line: ALL HASTENING TO THE SUN.
Subject(s): BEAUTY;
You are as beautiful as white clouds
Flowing among bright stars at night:
You are as beautiful as pale clouds
Which the moon sets alight.

You are as lovely as golden stars
Which white clouds try to brush away:
You are as bright as golden stars
When they come out to play.

You are as glittering as those stairs
Of stone down which the blue brooks run:
You are as shining as sea-waves
All hastening to the sun.



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