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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE LIGHTHOUSE AT ANTIBES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography
First Line: A stormy light of sunset glows and glares
Last Line: How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Antibes, France; Lighthouses
First Line: A stormy light of sunset glows and glares
Last Line: How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Antibes, France; Lighthouses
A STORMY light of sunset glows and glares
Between two banks of cloud, and o'er the brine
Thy fair lamp on the sky's carnation line
Alone on the lone promontory flares:
Friend of the Fisher who at nightfall fares
Where lurk false reefs masked by the hyaline
Of dimpling waves, within whose smile divine
Death lies in wait behind Circean snares.
The evening knows thee ere the evening star;
Or sees thy flame sole Regent of the bight,
When storm, hoarse rumoured by the hills afar,
Makes mariners steer landward by thy light,
Which shows through shock of hostile nature's war
How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night.
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