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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTIPHONY, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS First Line: O heart, no longer mourn; behold the hills Last Line: Wind stripped, rain-laved of cerements of sand. | |||
O Heart, no longer mourn; behold the hills, How radiant they greet the Easter dawn! Come, reverently, while the silence fills The kneeling valleys with her carillon. These mountains witness immortality: They knew strange death, ordealed by ice and fire, Yet rose triumphant from their grave of sea, Transcending pristine heights to climb still higher, Relinquishing a worn-out robe of gray For sable forests and a crown of frost. And if death like a sea embrace this clay Some instant, never fear the sun be lost! You shall arise! You shall arise to stand Wind stripped, rain-laved of cerements of sand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOONBLIND by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS OLD WOMEN TREES by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS THE SALMON GILLERS by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE LIKE A BULRUSH by MARIANNE MOORE ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC by JOHN DRYDEN GOOD-BY AND KEEP COLD by ROBERT FROST LINES WRITTEN IN AN OVID by MATTHEW PRIOR |
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