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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANOMALY, by CONSTANCE WALTHER CROSSEN First Line: How strange that you, whose world was always one Last Line: Diana may recall you to her train. | |||
How strange that you, whose world was always one Of teeming forests and of wing-filled skies, Of quivering silence, splintered by a gun, And the belled sweetness of a dog's quick cries, Should give your valiant heart into the care Of one whose strength a field mouse would disdain, Whose heart, more timid than a hunted hare, Shrinks in a hole beneath your fearsome plane -- It is as if Orion, by some freak, (Sirius barking vainly by his side) Should overlook the Pleiades, and seek A star of faint degree to be his bride; And so I live in fear, lest once again Diana may recall you to her train. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE by THOMAS HARDY LANCER by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN OLD KING COLE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE TRIUMPH OF TIME by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 50. MY LOVE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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