Nature
The Singer
From Green Fields and Running Brooks (1893)
Nature
While with Ambition's hectic flame
He wastes the midnight oil,
And dreams, high-throned on heights of fame,
To rest him from his toil,--
Death's Angel, like a vast eclipse,
Above him spreads her wings,
And fans the embers of his lips
To ashes as he sings.
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MLA
Riley, James Whitcomb. “The Singer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/73/.
Chicago
Riley, James Whitcomb. “The Singer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/73/.
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