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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SMILING DEMON OF NOTRE DAME, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet as are the quiet skies Last Line: Serene, grotesque olympian. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen | |||
QUIET as are the quiet skies He watches where the city lies Floating in vision clear or dim Through sun or rain beneath his eyes; Her songs, her laughter, and her cries Hour after hour drift up to him. Her days of glory or disgrace He watches with unchanging face; He knows what midnight crimes are done, What horrors under summer sun; And souls that pass in holy death Sweep by him on the morning's breath. Alike to holiness and sin He feels nor alien nor akin; Five hundred creeping mortal years He smiles on human joy and tears, Man-made, immortal, scorning man; Serene, grotesque Olympian. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM OVER-SEA by SOPHIE JEWETT OF TRANSIENT BEAUTY by SOPHIE JEWETT THE LEAST OF CAROLS by SOPHIE JEWETT WHEN BEAUTY DIES by SOPHIE JEWETT WHEN NATURE HATH BETRAYED THE HEART THAT LOVED HER by SOPHIE JEWETT ENGLAND AND AMERICA: 1. ON A RHINE STEAMER by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN |
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