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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMEMBERING, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND
First Line: She sits beside a grey wall; sits, and sees
Last Line: One gift that the gods have laid on her barren knees.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: She sits beside a grey wall; sits, and sees
Last Line: One gift that the gods have laid on her barren knees.
Subject(s): Memory
She sits beside a grey wall; sits, and sees
The strange, hot burning of the stars dissolve
In flaming horsemen riding on the breeze;
Like circling gulls her toneless dreams revolve
Round toneless worlds; ghosts; and a dead man's hand
That beckons; ghosts; and a creeping mist that fanned
Sharp sprays in her blurring eyes; a dead man's face
Stares out of the mad procession ... Winds of grace
Blowing the torches black, deaden the sound
Of the iron hoof-beats ... Only a grotesque mound..
She sits beside a grey wall, sits, and sees..
One gift that the gods have laid on her barren knees.
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