Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOW THE SONG WAS MADE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat low down, at midnight, in a vale Last Line: Silent awhile, and muse, but make no comment. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
I SAT low down, at midnight, in a vale Mysterious with the silence of blue pines: White-cloven by a snaky river-tail, Uncoiled from tangled wefts of silver twines. Out of a crumbling castle, on a spike Of splintered rock, a mile of changeless shade Gorged half the landscape. Down a dismal dike Of black hills the sluiced moonbeams streamed, and stayed. The world lay like a poet in a swoon, When God is on him, filled with heaven, all through, -- A dim face full of dreams turned to the moon, With mild lips moist in melancholy dew. I plucked blue mugwort, livid mandrakes, balls Of blossomed nightshade, heads of hemlock, long White grasses, grown in oozy intervals Of marsh, to make ingredients for a song: A song of mourning to embalm the Past, -- The corpse-cold Past, -- that it should not decay; But in dark vaults of memory, to the last, Endure unchanged: for in some future day I will bring my new love to look at it (Laying aside her gay robes for a moment) That, seeing what love came to, she may sit Silent awhile, and muse, but make no comment. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB THE LAST WISH by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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