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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHURCH OF A DREAM; TO BERNHARD BERENSON, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind
Last Line: Melancholy remembrances and vesperal.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind
Last Line: Melancholy remembrances and vesperal.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind,
Around the weather-worn, grey church, low down the vale:
The Saints in golden vesture shake before the gale;
The glorious windows shake, where still they dwell enshrined;
Old Saints by long-dead, shrivelled hands, long since designed:
There still, although the world autumnal be, and pale,
Still in their golden vesture the old Saints prevail;
Alone with Christ, desolate else, left by mankind.
Only one ancient Priest offers the Sacrifice,
Murmuring holy Latin immemorial:
Swaying with tremulous hands the old censer full of spice,
In grey, sweet incense clouds; blue, sweet clouds mystical:
To him, in place of men, for he is old, suffice
Melancholy remembrances and vesperal.
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