Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAUGHTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the coziest corner of my Last Line: His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter; Time; Nightmares | ||||||||
WITHIN the coziest corner of my dreams He sits, high-throned above all gods that be Portrayed in marble-cold mythology, Since from his joyous eyes a twinkle gleams So warm with life and light it ever seems Spraying in mists of sunshine over me, And mingled with such rippling ecstasy As overleaps his lips in laughing streams. Ho! look on him, and say if he be old Or youthful! Hand in hand with gray old Time He toddled when an infant; and, behold! -- He hath not aged, but to the lusty prime Of babyhood -- his brow a trifle bold -- His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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