Destroyers and Other Verses/August Is Blazing Through the Dingy Window
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August is blazing through the dingy window;
Splotches of sunlight on carpet, wall and ceiling,
Glow through the sickroom, its tawdry and dust-stained
Meanness revealing.
Splotches of sunlight on carpet, wall and ceiling,
Glow through the sickroom, its tawdry and dust-stained
Meanness revealing.
Silent he dreams, stretched out upon a mattress
With eyelids closed and waxen hands together,
Dreams, and a youth again, bids death defiance.
Midsummer weather
With eyelids closed and waxen hands together,
Dreams, and a youth again, bids death defiance.
Midsummer weather
Glimmers through rifts in the canopied pinetops,
Glints on the brown stream that tumbles and races
To join a blue river, and lights up its flowery,
Precipitous places.
Glints on the brown stream that tumbles and races
To join a blue river, and lights up its flowery,
Precipitous places.
Grasshoppers whirr, and the resinous carpet
Springs at his tread, as once more with arms swinging,
Free and exultant he climbs the dark hilltops,
Splendidly singing.
Springs at his tread, as once more with arms swinging,
Free and exultant he climbs the dark hilltops,
Splendidly singing.
With a sigh he awakes; from a neighbouring casement
Pours a piano's impudent jangle:
Down in the courtyard a man and a woman
Bitterly wrangle.
Pours a piano's impudent jangle:
Down in the courtyard a man and a woman
Bitterly wrangle.
Paris, 1855.