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Famous Moats Poems by Famous Poets

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...g a sunny southern slope in northern Sicily,
With sullen pupils focussed on a dream,
Stares on the stagnant stream
That moats the unequivocable battlements of Hell,
There, there will she be found,
She that is Beauty veiled from men and Music in a swound."

"I long for Silence as they long for breath
Whose helpless nostrils drink the bitter sea;
What thing can be
So stout, what so redoubtable, in Death
What fury, what considerable rage, if only she,
Upon whose icy breast,
Unqu...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna



...gazing, seemed to be at rest then,
 Quiet as a spirit in the golden glow.
So he lay a-watching rosy castles crumbling,
 Moats of blinding amber, bastions of flame,
Rugged rifts of opal, crimson turrets tumbling;
 So he lay a-dreaming till the shadows came.

"Open wide the window; there's a lark a-singing;
 There's a glad lark singing in the evening sky.
How it's wild with rapture, radiantly winging:
 Oh it's good to hear that when one has to die.
I am horror-haunted from the ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...Sunset that screens, reveals --
Enhancing what we see
By menaces of Amethyst
And Moats of Mystery....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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