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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
L'ANGE PLEUREUR (AMIENS CATHEDRAL), by ALICE COLE KLEENE
First Line: Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep
Last Line: Whose garment changes, but he does not change.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep
Last Line: Whose garment changes, but he does not change.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep
Through centuries, an hour-glass by your side,
One elbow on a great skull empty-eyed?
I see the sand slip and the season sweep,
A day for labor and a night for sleep,
The grave so narrow and the world so wide, --
The drift that marks the footfall of the tide,
I see it too, and yet I do not weep.
No, you are homesick for the cherubim,
To follow light beyond earth's blue-tipped range!
Strange are we filing past you, ever strange
Lauding your grace beside a death's head grim,
While your small wings and sad mouth yearn to him
Whose garment changes, but He does not change.
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