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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAKI, by AL-TALIQ First Line: Slender bough a-swing Last Line: Sunset's flaming rose. | |||
Slender bough a-swing On a swelling dune, Fruit of flame a-swoon My heart gathering. Curling tresses slide O'er his cheeks; behold Over silver, gold Streaming liquified. Perfect loveliness Dwells upon his brow; Lovely is the bough In his leafy dress. Aureate the cup In his fingers gleams; Over dawn meseems Day is mounting up. Wine, the sun, swings high Westward to his lips, And his finger-tips Frame its eastern sky. Down his throat it flows To the sleep it seeks, Leaving in his cheeks Sunset's flaming rose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] by MICHAEL DRAYTON SEAWEED by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE by WALTER RALEIGH TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS by PHILLIS WHEATLEY FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY by WALT WHITMAN PERVERSITY by EVA K. ANGLESBURG A DEFIANCE, RETURNING TO THE PLACE OF HIS PAST AMOURS by PHILIP AYRES |
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