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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALTELIER, by HELEN DANFORTH PRUDDEN First Line: Moonfrost burnishes the sculptured trees Last Line: Interminably. | |||
Moonfrost burnishes the sculptured trees Unmoved beneath the chiseling Of bats that gouge with sharpened wing The rough-edged shadows. Steel on stone . . . Pale splintered chips fall free Where powdered moths flake noiselessly. Cold steel on stone . . . Faint shimmering sparks Are struck. The fireflies with eerie light As tremulous as a distant shout Curve briefly in bright Swooning arcs, Then flicker out. Moonfrost burnishes the sculptured trees. No whispering drapery of breeze Disturbs the stark intensity of night. Only the drone of far-off surf, The mallet's muffled pound, And from the rumpled canvas of the turf The crickets' sound, Echoing steel on stone, Cold steel on stone . . . Interminably. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MIDDLE-AGED; A STUDY IN EMOTION by EZRA POUND GARRISON by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR MY PICTURE LEFT IN SCOTLAND by BEN JONSON LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE by EDWIN MARKHAM ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI by HERMAN MELVILLE A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86 by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL |
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