Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COUNTRY TOWN, by L. DALE AHERN First Line: Now twilight's last red ember blinks alone Last Line: The night upsets a hive of golden bees. Subject(s): Towns | ||||||||
Now twilight's last red ember blinks alone Above the winter's skeletons of trees, And Venus westward droops her radiant head While night upsets a hive of golden bees. A fragment of eternity, this hour Will throb with things beyond the pulse of time! In England Edward stakes his throne for love; In Spain the veins of honor run with slime; On some bleak prairie road beyond the hills A weary farm-wife shivers, split with pain; In southwest Africa at Walvis Bay, Tired men and women, kneeling, pray for rain . . . But here is peace -- above the naked trees The night upsets a hive of golden bees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAIL TEESSIDE! by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN by JAMES GALVIN A TOWN DEDICATED TO THE PURSUIT OF FITNESS & INNER PEACE by ANSELM HOLLO AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WHAT COULD HAPPEN by DORIANNE LAUX TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT by ELENI SIKELIANOS SABBATH MORNING by L. DALE AHERN |
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