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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NORTH LAKE, by ALEXANDER HYND LINDSAY
First Line: O you star-strewn stream of placid blue
Last Line: Is beauty shimmering in an emerald frame.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: O you star-strewn stream of placid blue
Last Line: Is beauty shimmering in an emerald frame.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
O you star-strewn stream of placid blue
Have brought me to the terminal of thought.
Now let me forget all I ever knew;
All that cold syllogisms ever taught.
Burn on, rose eve. Wing down, soft velvet night,
Where tree-spired cathedrals pillar these deeps
Shaped by the artistry of dying light.
Within thy silver ripples Beauty keeps
Her secret. Here in this white hour I know
Why thought blends more with feeling than with eye
That feeds on sensuous form. 'Tis not thy flow
Blue swell, nor lapping mouth melting with sky
That lure -- these form thy flesh, Lake Nymph, thy name
Is Beauty shimmering in an emerald frame.
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