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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MELODIOUS THE MORNING..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: Melodious the morning when the mist
Last Line: A love they now have nought of -- but the art!
Subject(s): Death; Love; Morning; Dead, The
First Line: Melodious the morning when the mist
Last Line: A love they now have nought of -- but the art!
Subject(s): Death; Love; Morning; Dead, The
Melodious the morning when the mist
Begins to dupe the eye and woo the ear
With minuets that tread the water here,
Turned ballroom floor where ghost and ghost may tryst,
Whose shoes and shadows, limned with amethyst,
Some distant hidden artist brushes clear,
Who even tints two profiles drawing near --
Thus proving those pale things once touched and kissed!
Don't utter loud so much as one soft breath --
Confusion this enough to drive away
A dance reincarnated out of death
To help those beings turn their night toward day:
A thought were loud enough to scare apart
A love they now have nought of -- but the art!
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A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT
FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT
TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT
CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND
FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG
PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG
..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG