Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT A RUINED ABBEY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray day's ending followed the gray day Last Line: Will priest and sinner vanish on the night? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys | ||||||||
THE gray day's ending followed the gray day, -- All gray together, ruin and air and sky, -- And a lone wind of memory whispered by, And told dark secrets on its wandering way; Through the blank windows' space, like ghosts astray, Sad crowds of black-winged jackdaws came and went -- Were they dead monks on some strange penance sent, Who used within these walls to preach and pray? Do they return, from the far, starry sphere, To their old haunt within these ruins old, To celebrate, perchance, some mystic rite, Some yearning soul's outcry of pain to hear; And, when the awful story has been told, Will priest and sinner vanish on the night? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEMBLABLES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS VERSES FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE by MATTHEW ARNOLD NETLEY ABBEY; A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM A NIGHT FANCY by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON NEWSTEAD ABBEY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON SONNET WRITTEN IN A RUINOUS ABBEY by SUSAN EVANCE WRITTEN AT NETLEY ABBEY by SUSAN EVANCE THE ABBEY MASON (WITH MEMORIES OF JOHN HICKS, ARCHITECT) by THOMAS HARDY A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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