Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NIGHT AT CORFU, by AUBREY DE VERE First Line: A hoary gleam through boughs prevailing Last Line: And now the west returns the glow! Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece | ||||||||
A HOARY gleam through boughs prevailing Tells me how near the ocean lies, Here caged in many a waveless lake By cypressed ridge and shadowy brake: Far off the nightingale is wailing: More near the watery grot replies. The forest growths are rocked and dandled By airs with midnight odors faint, Soft, separate airs, o'er feathered grass That pass me often and repass, Like naked feet of nymphs unsandalled That tread each lawn and alley quaint. No voice is heard of mortal creature! No voice, -- yet I am not alone: Nausicaa and her virgin train Still haunt the woodland, skirt the main, And deck for me with human feature Each glimmering branch and white-browed stone. When with those maids the exile sported The fireflies lit, as now, the glen: That rose its blush to-day which gave And bosom to the aspiring wave, Descends from one old Ocean courted, On the same cliff it may be, then! I see not now those hills whose summits In August keep their ermined robes; But feel their freshness, know that round They gird the steely gulfs profound With feet that mock the seamen's plummets, And foreheads crowned with starry globes. But see! vast beams divide the heaven; The orange-groves their blossoms show; Over you kindling deep the Moon Will lash her snowy coursers soon: Now, by her brow the east is riven! And now the west returns the glow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LORDSHIP OF CORFU; A LEGEND OF 1516 by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE HOUSE OF ALCINOUS by HOMER CORFU by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON THE ROCK OF CASHEL by AUBREY DE VERE CASTLECONNEL by AUBREY DE VERE COAST SCENERY by AUBREY DE VERE GOUGAUNE BARRA by AUBREY DE VERE |
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