Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BOWL, by JOHN FREEMAN


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THE BOWL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Level with the late rays
Last Line: Away and unperceived.
Subject(s): Nature


LEVEL with the late rays
The hollow green vast rondure holds
Shallows and deeps of light and dark,
Nothing but light and shadow of dark,
No stir, no sound.
The hollow bowl of silence holds
Not an echo of dying sound.

But as a crystal bowl long, long will ring
If but a finger-tip's faint tap should sting
Silence to a sudden cry:—
So now, prolonging one low happy sigh,
One low breath to that tingling
Lustrous rim still clinging,
Sings, sighs, sings, sighs
All round and dies
Away and unperceived.





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