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Literatur: Piatt
Literatur: Poetologische Lyrik
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"HE has a prettier book than this," With many a sob between, he said; Then left untouched the night's last kiss, And, sweet with sorrow, went to bed. A prettier book his brother had? – |
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Yet wonder-pictures were in each. The different colors made him sad; The equal value – could I teach? [98] Ah, who is wiser?... Here we sit, Around the world's great hearth, and look, |
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While Life's fire-shadows flash and flit, Each wistful in another's book. I see, through fierce and feverish tears, Only a darkened hut in mine; Yet in my brother's book appears |
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A palace where the torches shine. A peasant, seeking bitter bread From the unwilling earth to wring, Is in my book; the wine is red, There in my brother's, for the king. |
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[99] A wedding, where each wedding-guest Has wedding garments on, in his, – In mine one face in awful rest, One coffin never shut, there is! In his, on many a bridge of beams |
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Between the faint moon and the grass, Dressed daintily in dews and dreams, The fleet midsummer fairies pass; In mine unearthly mountains rise, Unearthly waters foam and roll, |
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And – stared at by its deathless eyes – The master sells the fiend a soul! [100] ... Put out the lights. We will not look At pictures any more. We weep, "My brother has a prettier book," |
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Druckvorlage
S. M. B. Piatt: A Voyage to The Fortunate Isles, etc.
Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company 1874, S. 97-100.
Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck
(Editionsrichtlinien).
URL: https://books.google.fr/books?id=KskRAAAAYAAJ
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/miun.abj8513.0001.001
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