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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG'S END, by JOHN PAYNE Poet's Biography First Line: The chime of a bell of gold Last Line: I shall live on yet, you will see. | |||
THE chime of a bell of gold That flutters across the air, The sound of a singing of old, The end of a tale that is told, Of a melody strange and fair, Of a joy that has grown despair: For the things that have been for me I shall never have them again; The skies and the purple sea, And day like a melody, And night like a silver rain Of stars on forest and plain. They are shut, the gates of the day; The night has fallen on me: My life is a lightless way; I sing yet, while as I may! Some day I shall cease, maybe: I shall live on yet, you will see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RED, RED ROSE by ROBERT BURNS SONNET: 22. TO THE SAME [CYRIACK SKINNER] by JOHN MILTON TO THE NIGHTINGALE by PHILIP AYRES EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YEAR'S VERSES FOR 1825 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD ODE TO THE SACRED LAMPS by M. L. R. BRESLAR THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE GENERAL PROLOGUE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER HIS NAME by CHARLES POOLE CLEAVES DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. |
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