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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____ Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares | |||
LAST night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn On the black midnight of a velvet sleep, And set in woeful thoughts; and there I saw A thin, pale Cupid, with bare, ragged wings Like skeletons of leaves, in autumn left, That sift the frosty air. One hand was shut, And in its little hold of ivory Fastened a May-morn zephyr, frozen straight, Made deadly with a hornet's rugged sting, Gilt with the influence of an adverse star. Such was his weapon, and he traced with it, Upon the waters of my thoughts, these words: 'I am the death of flowers, and nightingales, And small-lipped babes, that give their souls to summer To make a perfumed day with: I shall come, A death no larger than a sigh to thee, Upon a sunset hour.'And so he passed Into the place where faded rainbows are, Dying along the distance of my mind; As down the sea Europa's hair-pearls fell When, through the Cretan waves, the curly bull Dashed, tugging at a stormy plough, whose share Was of the northern hurricane _____ | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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