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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World | |||
Must blood of murders and of wars regale The universe and melt the sun to seas Of crimson and of purple where a sail, Terrific, black, triumphant, rides the gale, Whose gay, insulting pennons flaunt, release A death's-head mocking life's great tragedies, And pirates bellow thunderous and hail Another captive star with miseries? Is ours an earth where slaughter is the fate Reserved for men who seek life's privilege, A soil where hates crunch bones and love turns hate, A house whose every breath breathes sacrilege? O barbarous the sunset of a sea, Which drowns in blood each age's history! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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