Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD'S REMEMBRANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper from the night to me Last Line: Drowned in the lavender of evening sea. Subject(s): God | ||||||||
THERE came a whisper from the night to me Like music of the sea, a mighty breath From out the valley's dewy mouth, and Death Shook his lean bones, and every coloured tree Wept in the fog of morning. From the town Of nests among the branches one old crow With gaps upon his wings flew far away. And, thinking of the golden summer glow, I heard a blackbird whistle half his lay Among the spinning leaves that slanted down. And I who am a thought of God's now long Forgotten in His Mind, and desolate With other dreams long over, as a gate Singing upon the wind the anvil song, Sang of the Spring when first He dreamt of me In that old town all hills and signs that creak: -- And He remembered me as something far In old imaginations, something weak With distance, like a little sparking star Drowned in the lavender of evening sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOUNTAIN IS STRIPPED by DAVID IGNATOW AS CLOSE AS BREATHING by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 1 by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN BIRTH-DUES by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SILENT SHEPHERDS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS EVENING CLOUDS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE |
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