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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A MARSH ROAD (WINTER, NIGHTFALL), by FORD MADOX FORD Poet's Biography
First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south
Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime
First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south
Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime
A BLUFF of cliff, purple against the south,
And nigh one shoulder-top an orange pane.
This wet, clean road; clear twilight held in the pools,
And ragged thorns, ghost reeds and dim, dead willows.
Past all the windings of these grey, forgotten valleys,
To west, past clouds that close on one dim rift—
The golden plains; the infinite, glimpsing distances,
The eternal silences; dim lands of peace.
Infinite plains to know no wanderer's foot; infinite distances where alone is
rest;
All-virgin downs where none shall pasture sheep; inviolable peaks that none
shall climb,
From whose summit nor you nor I shall gaze on ocean's infinite beyond,
Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep.
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