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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAGNES; ON THE RIVIERA, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography
First Line: In tortuous windings up the steep incline
Last Line: Was its reflection beaming from your face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Riviera
First Line: In tortuous windings up the steep incline
Last Line: Was its reflection beaming from your face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Riviera
IN tortuous windings up the steep incline
The sombre street toils to the village square,
Whose antique walls in stone and moulding bear
Dumb witness to the Moor. Afar off shine,
With tier on tier, cutting heaven's blue divine,
The snowy Alps; and lower the hills are fair,
With wave-green olives rippling down to where
Gold clusters hang and leaves of sunburnt vine.
You may perchance, I never shall forget
When, between twofold glory of land and sea,
We leant together o'er the old parapet,
And saw the sun go down. For, oh, to me,
The beauty of that beautiful strange place
Was its reflection beaming from your face.
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