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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNRISE TRUMPETS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim wind pillared the hills: stiller than mist it
Last Line: Of sunrise-trumpets! Up! Dawn is javelined!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: Dim wind pillared the hills: stiller than mist it
Last Line: Of sunrise-trumpets! Up! Dawn is javelined!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
Dim wind pillared the hills: stiller than mist it seemed;
Somewhere water challenged silence, somewhere water failed;
Spiders brooded thick in silver and the willows dreamed . . .
Then the wind crumpled richly; night paled.
Black-eyed starlight dimmed; a voice blushed timidly;
Sombre crimson crouched in shadow, rifts of hazel fire:
Dawn a drowsy eagle, and the brief audacity
Of thrushes fluting through the dew -- one choir!
O the lift, the liquid blindness of their throats!
O the high white music and the blue plumes of the wind!
Up! the crested moment points a sword! the flashing notes
Of sunrise-trumpets! Up! dawn is javelined!
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