Monday, April 6, 2015

Night Clouds Comments

Rating: 4.5

The white mares of the moon rush along the sky
Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens
The white mares are all standing on their hind legs
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Amy Lowell
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Dr Antony Theodore 07 July 2020

Strain your utmost Scatter the milky dust of stars Or the tigers will leap upon you and destroy you With one lick of his vermillion tongue A very good poem. Tony

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IAAAAANNNNN 10 January 2018

i hate this poem ots for school

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(0 ^ 0) 10 January 2018

I hate this poem IIIIIIIAAAAANNNNN

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my name is jeff 11 December 2017

does amy lowell realize tigers cant leap on clouds?

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: -) (-: 11 December 2017

amy lowell is so confusing. does she realize tigers cant leap on the clouds without falling?

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_____ 11 December 2017

I wonder if Amy Lowell realized that tigers are plural and then switched to singular with one lick of his vermillion.

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Arietta 11 April 2020

It’s “ the tiger sun will leap upon you...”

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John Pendrey 18 March 2016

The penultimate line should be, Or the tiger sun will leap upon you and destroy you

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Kim Barney 06 April 2015

I wonder if Amy realized when she wrote this poem that the MARES of the moon refer not to HORSES but to SEAS? Spanish and Portuguese (and probably Latin) : MAR = SEA related words in English: mariner, maritime Interesting poem, nevertheless.

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