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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUN DOGS, by SAMUEL ALEXANDER WHITE First Line: Bacchante faces in the flaming sky Last Line: To read the blazing of life's path aright. | |||
Bacchante faces in the flaming sky Revel all day until the sun has set, Pledging the scarlet of life's hot July, To nightward turn with eyes of red regret. So youth's fierce blood which burned with eager fire, And youth's swift foot which dared the unknown way Now pass the crimson portals of desire With empty longing for the wasted day. In ashes kneels the wraith of rosy dawn, In sackcloth which the world was glad to weave, With low lament and tearful orison Before the hallowed altar of the eve. The maenad pulse has lost its fiery lures And Pluto's gift is shorn of all delight; For youth is wise and wisdom's sight endures To read the blazing of life's path aright. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS UPON BEN JONSON [JOHNSON] by ROBERT HERRICK ON A CURATE'S COMPLAINT OF HARD DUTY by JONATHAN SWIFT TO THE VERS LIBRIST WHO USES ONLY THE MINOR KEY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 93. AL-NOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD THE SEAMSTRESS by HENRI BARBUSSE IMPROMPTU by FRANCOIS JOACHIM DE PIERRE DE BERNIS VICTORIAN JOURNALISM by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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