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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE STARS THAT HAVE GONE OUT, by AFANASI AFANASIEVICH FET First Line: Curious eyes of those blue skyey spaces Last Line: The ghost of a sign to the ghost of a star there? Alternate Author Name(s): Foeth, Afanasy Afanasyveicht; Fet, Afanasy | |||
CURIOUS eyes of those blue skyey spaces, Tell me how long shall your glimmer inspire me? Long shall I feel, that in night's holy places Nothing is nobler or fairer to fire me. Quenched in some era forgotten, you may be Nothing at all, though you still flame afar there; -- This dead man's songs to you flying, shall they be The ghost of a sign to the ghost of a star there? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SWALLOWS by AFANASI AFANASIEVICH FET THE PRISONER by AFANASI AFANASIEVICH FET HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 8 by EZRA POUND GRAND ARMY PLAZA by KAREN SWENSON ISAAC AND ARCHIBALD by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE HORSE THIEF by WILLIAM ROSE BENET ESCAPE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN IT'S ONLY FAIR by BERTON BRALEY THE HILLS WE LOVE by GRACE LOWE BROADHEAD TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CRADLED IN FLAME by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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