Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INCOMPLETENESS, by DORIS ELFRIDA ESTCOURT First Line: Through the clean silence of the wakening / day Last Line: We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again. Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares | ||||||||
THROUGH the clean silence of the wakening day There comes a fleeting breath of mystery; The night is full of dreams that cannot be Quite touched or seen, but slip like ghosts away. The gypsy Spring on morning hills astray Is flaunting something that we cannot see; The night wind blowing from a stormy sea Sweeps through the darkness, sighs and dies away. And ever and again a longing wakes At lights across the water, passers-by, A note of music, or a cloud that breaks To show the glory of the evening sky A longing for a something sought in vain. We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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