Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares | ||||||||
THE purity of water and the peace Of wind-still air: the placid scent of pines, Warming my heart as with the waft of wines; The murmuring of hidden brooks, the fleece Of foam-topped rivers, and the splendid space Of sky above, with all its interlace Of blue and white and gold, -- Oh, these to me Do plead as plead the flutes of Arcady, Bidding my sorry stressfulness to cease. For then I take for truth the poet's dream: There's naught in all the world save only good; Little, fair children, love no parting kills, Romance through the tree-branches soft agleam, Beauty that lies await by field and wood, And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! | 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 BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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